Here's The Plan!

Me & Sam have been changing our minds left and right over what is best for Connor for this next year...I think we have finally figured it out, lol. The Pediatria place is off our list, it just didn't seem stimulating enough for him-looked like he was going to be hanging out in the baby room quite a bit with lots of babies with g-tubes...I could just see him yanking one of their tubies out or just being left on his own a bunch....

So, we are going ahead and letting him start the special needs class in the public school system. His teacher is very nice and we even found out that one of my friends kids named Amanda who has downs syndrome will be in there too! I volunteered to be the room mom, lol, so it should be a fun year. His first day is next Friday. I don't know HOW Connor will react when I leave him poor thing...PRAY!

I also got him in at Samantha's old preschool for Tuesday and Thursdays from 9 to 1pm. This will be amazing for him there since there are typical developed kids for him to be around. Only catch there is he is going to need to have an aide with him there specially for him...so we have to pay quite a bit more to get him a helper...he is only the 2nd child to do this at the school-so it is new territory for everyone.

Thanks for all the messages and calls to check on us, sorry we have been out of touch, just been trying to get a handle on life lately. The new medicine has helped tremendously with Connor's behavior. It has not been easy, but he is much better than he was before. Samantha is less stressed as well. He has been a busy boy going to speech therapy A LOT, lol, and it has been so wonderful to see how far he has come in such a short time-not so much with talking, but his understanding is improving greatly.

Ryan and Stacy are finally home thank goodness! They start high school on Thursday...I am nervous for them, and excited too, to see how it goes this year. This will be a time of lots of changes for all of us with Connor going to school for the first time ever! At two schools no less :-)

I'll try not to be so long with updates, love to all.

Debbie


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