Normal is BORING!

We had an end of the year PPT to discuss how Bubba was doing in class, how services were going with his speech & language pathologist. We found out that his SLP was retiring, he would have a new teacher. He was making progress with her, his teacher & para were helping him cope and effectively communicate. We discussed the plan for next year how many days a week he would be going & what session morning or afternoon.  Bubba qualified for the extended year program from PreK after his introduction period to school. Extended School Year Program a.k.a. Summer School was not what I expected. There was a little boy who did not get along with Bubba, both of them struggling with speech & communication not a great mix. One day I received a phone call letting me know that my son had hit this boy with a spoon on his forehead and gave him an egg. I felt so bad for that little boy & couldn't believe that my kid actually hit another kid. I was used to it with his panic...

Patching & glasses with Bubba was oh so much fun in the beginning, he got used to the routine of every evening watching his movie; thank you Pixar & Disney for Cars, Lightning McQueen you are my hero! Slowly his brain began recognizing his eye & turned it back on! He still needed his glasses, they became his safety blanket. Upon starting he wanted nothing to do with them but now is was the first thing he wanted when he woke up & we had a process to get them off of his face at bedtime. The longer we patched & Bubba wore his glasses some of his quirks seemed to lessen & other things seemed to be arising. Over the next year we had some household changes, I had to return into the workforce finding a job that I could bring my son or worked with my husbands schedule.... I ended up becoming a bus driver, something I NEVER thought I would do! When I started there were a lot of moms & kids there; I was excited to get Bubba around other kids & for me...