Agnes is 7 weeks old this week. She is such a fun baby, though she seems to go from hot to cold pretty quick. One minute she'll be smiling and laughing (in her newborn way) and then the next she will be screaming like she's never had anything to eat in her life. She will enjoy seeing her cousins for Thanksgiving next week and all the attention and cuddling!
Jeffrey had a big day today. He rode the bus home from school! Now I know that doesn't seem like a huge deal, but he's had to show me that he can be a big kindergartner and go to the art room to wait for his teacher on his own in the mornings. One of his teachers used to meet him at the front of the school and walk him up to class on his own to avoid the chaos of all the kindergartners meeting in the same place. One day he told me he wanted to go and wait with his friend and since then he's been going in with the other kids. Then he said he wanted to ride the bus so we set a goal to go to the art room 5 times on his own to show me he was ready to be dropped off by the bus at school in the mornings. Today he did it so he got to ride the bus home after school.
Jeffrey has come a long way this year. It has taken a lot of coordinated work from us and his teachers and the others at the school to get to this point. We will be meeting with a psychologist next week to see if the diagnosis of Asperger's is right and then to start working with the district to get his IEP started. We still have things to work on, like his handwriting but I have learned to appreciate every single little victory we have.
