Story time with Jingle Bells

Today Jingle Bells spent the day reading his friends a story. He was so quiet and blended on the shelf, we couldn't find him for much of the day.

Bubby found this Star Wars in his calendar. Hubby had to tell me it was Darth Vader's little ship. I'm not sure if we will be doing another Star Wars advent next year. This one has been so tough! I am so use to being a Barbie/brats mom that these Legos have been so challenging. Ha!

I realized this morning that it's 15 days until Christmas and I'm not sure if I am ready for it. I have so much wrapping to do and I still have 2 trees that I have to put up yet. The only cookies I have baked so far were the ones for our cookie exchange. I am such a slacker this year! Ha! Bubby had been bouncing off the walls. He has managed to get himself in trouble two days in a row at school. Sensory issues are tough on normal days but add the excitement of Christmas and it is rough!

Ok. Time to watch the Country awards. Have a great night!

Evaluation day

Yesterday my son finally had his evaluation with the county intermediate unit. I knew as soon as we walked in there he was not going to qualify for any services. As soon as they started asking questions,I JUST KNEW IT. It's the same old dance every time.  I'm not sure if it is just my state or all states but ours only gives services if the child scores less then 21%. My son scored 37%. I'm stunned that my state finds any thing less then 50% acceptable. Whatever happened to "no child left behind"?  I mean didn't we get that drilled into our heads for years? They seem to think he would benefit from a preschool setting to help him with his issues. You know the ones he doesn't have. Sigh. Here's my theory on sending him to school. If he has issues and is in a classroom with 20 other kids, he is going to be a distraction to others. The teacher will have to stop class and correct his behavior. Therefor other kids are going to miss out on learning and he will be labeled as difficult. How is that helping him or others? It's not. And that's the problem. They also don't think he should go to Kindergarten next year but should go to preschool. Umm...Isn't that the same thing??? They also want him to come back for a hearing test next week. I guess just to rule that out. Luckily after facebooking yesterday my friends chimed in with some advise. Places they have sent their sensory kids.  In the next few days we will be looking into other options.

Wish us luck.......