Yesterday was the last day of school!  B woke up that morning and cooked breakfast all by himself.  No one was allowed downstairs.  He got out the griddle, made up some pancakes.  Then he cracked the eggs and was in the process of scrambling them when he ran into problems.  He told me the eggs were not cooking because he could not get the oven to 350.  Panic set in.  I store things inside my oven.  Not sure what he was talking about, I tear off down the stairs.  The pancakes looked perfect on the griddle, toast was in the toaster oven and the oven was set to 550.  Fortunately, he alerted me soon enough and I got down there before the few plastic items had melted.  I then took the opportunity to tell him the about the different nobs on the stove.  I think he gets it now the difference between the burners and the oven.

Jbird insisted on helping but B said no.  So we compromised and Jbird made waffles that evening for dinner.  Amazed at how those little hands can perfectly crack eggs!

B ended up getting the coveted perfect attendance sweatshirt.  I think there were about 14 kids.  When you think about staying healthy for 185 days, that is a lot of days!  So thankful for good immune systems.  It is certainly not because we wash our hands before every meal.

One of my favorite sayings of JB's right now is 'otay Mom'.  The other word he says all the time, whenever he sees them, is 'peace' for police.  This past week we had his preschool meeting.  We met with the head of special education, the special ed teacher, physical therapist and two speech therapists.  No big surprises.  He tested normal in all areas except language.  There is some concern about his social interactions among peers.  He chooses more solitary play and I am sure it is because he cannot communicate with his peers.  It was interesting because they did not classify him as developmentally delayed.  At one point the director asked why everyone was requesting the preschool setting instead of continuing with private speech.  They simply explained that they did not label him developmental delayed but if you look at his standard deviations, he is at a minus two, which would qualify him for the program.  They really feel that the social interaction is very, very key, along with therapy, to progress the language.  So, he is officially accepted into the program.  He will be going 4 days a week for 2 1/2 hours.  They are also curious to get to know him more because they observed other peculiar things about him.  Things like when he would put the sheep's head on the sheep's body, he would put it on crooked, consistently, instead of putting it on the right way.  They were not sure if it was some other learning thing going on or just quirky.  I think quirky describes him perfect.  I know that he is so smart that sometimes he manipulates things just because he does not want to give you what you want.  I love that kid...always keeping us on his toes.  He has hit another milestone that I will try to get a picture of soon and post next time......one that I am very excited about!

Until then....