This Friday was our last day attending Cambridge Prep School with Ms. Andrea. Grayson started there last summer as a way to socialize with other children and hopefully learn some language and behavioral skills from them. We immediately were drawn to this school and this teacher since she had some personal experience with autism. We couldn't have made a better decision. From day one we felt comfortable sending Grayson there. This was the first place that had people to care for him that were not family members. We consider ourselves so lucky to have met Ms. Andrea and the other wonderful people at that school. Since Grayson will be celebrating his third birthday on Tuesday, he now qualifies for a CSS (communication/social skills) classroom in the pre-k disabilities division of the public school. He will be attending that 2 mornings a week. The other 3 days he will continue with ABA therapy that we started back in August. Instead of waiting until the fall to enroll him, we have decided to start him this week. He will be starting on Wednesday. We figured it might be good for him to get a head start with the rituals and routines of the classroom. That way they can tell us specific difficulties that he is having so that we can work on them over the summer. Best news is that the school that we liked the most, happened to be our neighborhood school and is right across the street. We are excited for the new adventure we are about to embark on.
We have started receiving birthday presents for Grayson and we are so thankful for all of them. We are also thankful for Daddy who built this great table for Grayson to work at. We will be spending a lot of time here over the summer.
We were super bummed to get rained out of the Easter egg hunt that we were supposed to go to on Saturday, but heard about a carnival at a mall parking lot not too far from us. We decided that would be our Easter activity. We were a little concerned when we first got there that most of the rides that he was able to ride had to be ridden alone. He had never been on a ride alone. Obviously, as the pictures show, he could have cared less. The rides he went on were not very noisy but the surrounding ones were, lots of fingers in the ear pictures, but nevertheless the smile on the face is priceless. He went on 4 different rides and rode them numerous times.
This ride he loved the best. He was the only one on it and nobody was waiting in line, so the very nice ride operator just continued to let it ride around the track. He was talking and smiling every time he turned the corner.
This one was next to the noisiest ride in the lot. Adam tells me it was the hydrolics. That may be, but there is NO WAY I would let me kid on that, let alone myself. Just saying.....
Love this one from far away. Looks like he is going to pick up a date in his 'Vette.
The scrunch face= I love this!
Best 3 bucks I ever spent. A mini bubble blower with a button on it for him to press to release the bubbles. He doesnt typically pick up how a toy turns on and off quickly, so I was amazed at how quickly he mastered this one. Even better, he knew when it ran out of bubbles to come back over to me so we could dip the wand in the bubble solution.
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