I have had very little time online lately. Busy is an understatement of what has happened. Now here I am. I have been transferred out of my counseling position and into a 5th grade teaching position at my school. In addition, our principal and another principal in the district have both quit. I do not know who our principal will be next year, and I do not know how all this will work out for me to teach--especially after 19 years of not having a classroom full of kids to teach all day every day.
Our little guy, Gabe is continuing to learn to speak and to understand spoken language. He is getting more into the routines around here and has grown a lot emotionally and academically. Last month we had a transition meeting for him at the school he would be attending if he were promoted to kindergarten. We let them know that he is not in any way ready for kindergarten but they promoted him over our objections. They claimed that they could not get any funding to keep him in the developmental preschool after he reaches 5 years of age (next July 21). A few days later his preschool teacher called Claudia and told her that decision had been revisited and reversed by a school district Special Education consultant and he will remain in preschool.
We are sooooo happy about that! We know he has progressed a lot since he has been with us, but the attachment is so obviously not complete and too many of the control issues are still plaguing him and us.
To top everything off, our daughter, Carolyn, and her husband, Sam, have moved back in with us. They came up from Utah and Sam will be looking for a job up here. Carolyn is now over two months pregnant!! We are going to be grandparents in about November or December. She has not had medical care yet, so we do not have an accurate estimate of her due date.
Sam and Carolyn wore out both of their cars and do not have a car to get around with anymore, so we think they will need to get one as soon as Sam earns some money from somewhere.
A busy month? Oh yes!! This has been a very busy month so far!!!
For those of you whose blogs I am subscribed to or whom I am following somewhere online, I must apologize that I have not been able to check out your blogs for many days and that I have been unable to comment on anyone's buzzes or tweets. I also apologize to those of you who have not seen any blogs coming from me for awhile.
Hopefully I can resume normal online activities now that I have helped promote one PSR client out of PSR services.
Our vegetable garden has now been tilled (Claudia and mostly Clyde) and planted (Claudia, Sam, and Carolyn). We hope we can now get our front planters planted this week.
We are still Gabe-proofing our home. Gabe can now open the doors with the child-proof door handle covers and we are busy installing locking doors on all our rooms as quickly as we possibly can.
He gets into things much less now and is far more responsive to direction now than a year ago. I think his Dubach family members would not experience him as quite the same boy they gave us now. But he still can grab and destroy faster than any child we have ever seen.
We are very thankful for him, though. We love him a lot and are re-learning how to parent young children. He is definitely all boy, as the saying goes.
Everyone have a nice week!!!
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