Patty and Carson worked on the stairs for a bit. She used a tree on a thick poster board this time. There were Velcro spots where the leaves should be. Each spot had a number beside it and the leaves at the top of the stairs had corresponding numbers. He did great with this. He still needs a lot of help going down the steps but he seems to be getting the hang of going up. I think it's the momentum of coming down and he's just not strong enough to fight gravity.
In the classroom just the other little boy showed up. Jen and Amber were back so I was able to just sit at the table in the back of the room and watch. Amy was there filling out IEP reports for other kids but it was nice to see her.
Jen put Carson on this bean-shaped "ball". He straddled it and bounced on it while they went over the days of the week. Carson was very audible as they counted the days, all the way to 25. Amber asked him to put the number in the calendar and he completely freaked out. He was scratching Jen and pulling her hair. She finally had to pick him up to make him put the number in the slot. They moved him a few feet away from the other little guy and it seemed to calm him down. They did the weather (COLD!!) and Carson was happy to put the coat on the panda.
LaQuita read a story about playing in the leaves. As she was reading I noticed Carson writing with his finger on the mats on the floor. Patty and Jen were cracking up at it but I wasn't sure why.
After the story, Jen brought him over to the table to work on fine motor. They began with cutting straws. He was very oral-sensory-seeking and wanted to chew on all of the straws. They made a deal and he had to cut the straw once and then he would be allowed to chew on it again before cutting it again. They cheer him on and really make it seem as if he is cutting the straw but I'm honestly not sure if he is or not. They are scissors that look like tongs so you don't have to put fingers into loops and Jen is always hand-over-hand with him so I can't tell how much he is doing himself and how much she is helping him.
Patty came to me and told me that they have decided that Carson is going to write a book about all of us when he is older and about how stupid we all are. That is what they were laughing about. He was so frantic about what he was writing on the mat that they decided he is probably already on about chapter 4. Amy got in on it and was saying that he is going to describe in detail how we make him label the craziest things and here he is now learning how to spell Kilimanjaro. This is one reason I love these girls. They know him so well.
Fine motor also consisted of using BINGO paints and connect the dots papers. Jen explained that the paint is great because you have to squeeze it to get the paint to come onto the little pad so it will make him work just that much more.
For PT it was all about jumping again. Over the weekend he actually jumped off of our coffee table into my lap as I was sitting on the couch. I cried. I tried to get him to do it again but it was just a fleeting thing that he just wasn't thinking about when he did it and for the rest of the tries he was basically just falling forward onto me.
After PT and OT we went over to LaQuita and he was not interested in anything she had planned for us. He got so upset with us that he gouged my neck and my chin. I tried to act like it didn't hurt but it was burning like Hell. He even went after LaQuita once. It's embarrassing because here they are just trying to help him and he gets so pissed off that he is now lashing out at them as well. I don't know how to take it. I don't know if that means that he is comfortable enough around them now to really show them what he does or doesn't want to do because before no matter who it was he would always take it out on me. I think I'd rather him take it out on me. I know that it's not personal.
Once we had everything out of him that we thought we could get for the day, which was basically nothing, we let him decompress on the little couch and watch his iPad. LaQuita, Amy and I watched and listened as he began to say certain letters that he was watching on a certain app. He is getting really good at saying I, E, R, U, T etc. He will draw them in the air with his hand and say either the letter itself or the sound that it makes. It's not all the time and it sounds very monotone as if he is tone-deaf but it's something. Amy was amazed since she hasn't seen what he has been doing besides what I text her or post on Facebook.
We stayed about 15 minutes extra to hang out while everyone ate their cupcakes and just chatted about random things. Sometimes it's still hard to grasp that he will be leaving them in about 6 months. We've had so many people come and go in our lives and I always think that I will miss them but then new people follow and fill those voids. If I do home school him next year it will just be us again. Part of me is terrified about that and part of me is really excited.
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