Valentines....

Today while daddy is working we are filling out Valentines for the up coming class parties. Now 2 kids need 26 of them and 2 kids need 32 of them.....that is over 100. The kids have to fill them out. Well Nomuken did just fine it, little to no help. Same with Tajia. Deze on the other hand just scribbled randomly. I had to help her alot with hers. Gabe wants nothing to do with telling random classmates that he loves them. That is all he thinks you do on Valentines!!

On Thursday Gabe will be 7yrs old. 7....Where did the time go? It is hard to think of him as 7. Where as he looks 7 or even 8....he cannot write his own name. Or count to 10....and he only knows a few colors. When tested he comes out at a social level of an 18 month old and a verbal level of a 19 month old....but he understands things at the level of a 13 month old child.

It kills me to know he is growing up in body...but yet seems trapped at a younger age. He wants me to hold him all the time. He is 68lbs. There is only so long someone can hold him. I fear time as he gets bigger and stronger......So a birthday with him is bittersweet. It is wonderful to celebrate him....yet it reminds me of a nagging fear all in the same breath....

Deze is doing good. Going in to check hearing again soon....she is in the same social therapy as Gabe is now. So we drive 2 hours each way once a week for a 1 hour therapy session....and it is worth every penny in gas to have my kids feel like they have friends. They interact with the other ASD kids on their own levels and terms...and there are no people to judge us there. Its like a safe zone for the parents and the kids!

Gabe had his first 2 full days of school...He takes off on the playground when the bell rings to go in. It took 3 paras and the principal to catch him....both Monday and today. I am thinking its going to be a normal thing for him. He really hates that bell!