Week 4

OK. So I skipped a few. Shoot me.

Overall, things are very uneventful though. We are not having the crying of last year at all. I also am spending so little time with him that I can't say if any improvements have been seen. Sigh. The life of a full time working mother.

The CDs for the past two weeks were working on the sensory integration spectrum. So we should have been seeing less of the fingernail clipping behavior of a previous post. We should also be seeing more comfort with touching, hearing, smelling, etc. I can't tell you if any of this is going on because he spends 8 hours a day with someone else and only 4 awake hours with me. Most of those hours are rushing through tasks to get him out of the house on time or get him to bed on time.

What I have seen is that he is very tired at the end of his days. Too tired. But camp is very busy. He is also somewhat oppositional. He thinks that having an attitude shows that he is grown up. Reports from camp also label him as a bit uncooperative. We have talked to them about his fear of looking bad and his inability to understand verbal directions. So hopefully, he will improve there.

He has been doing lots of reading. He was picking up piano very quickly this spring, but we had to drop lessons because we can't get him home from camp in time. So we will begin those again in the fall.

He is also getting much more serious about Karate now that he is preparing for his black belt test. We have seen lots of improvement in his ability to move. He still seems stiff, but he's making progress.

The bike? Maybe we will actually get him on the bike again this summer.