wow.

I missed a whole month! In that time, J has started first grade and finished the baseball season.

School is going well so far! For the most part, he's excited to go and they tell me he's happy most days.

Jackson's strongest subject at school is spelling. He's gotten 90% on his first three tests! I'm nervous about this week's test because most of the words are four letters and he wasn't thrilled about spelling them for me. It's really amazing to me that he just learns the letters from me spelling them to him and reading simple stories that contain the spelling words in them. He then takes the tests at school orally because his writing isn't close to a first grade level yet.

New this is year is homework. J was really excited the first few times and now he runs from me when I tell him we have homework to do. We have to do most of it hand over hand, but he's brought little trinkets home every week for having his work done at the end of the week.

We have his first parent/teacher conference tonight. We'll see how it goes!

He's still getting to swim every week with the adaptive phy ed teacher and classroom aide once a week. They said yesterday he kicked around the pool on his own with a floatie thing around his waist holding on to a pool noodle. Never thought I'd see the day!

Baseball ended so well! He wasn't happy to be there at first and then it got to the point where he was asking daily to "run the bases." I think it helped that after the first few games his buddies were always Vicky on Tuesdays and Mike on Saturdays. They were both so good with him. There was an award ceremony at the last game and Jackson got his first trophy! 7 years ago, if someone told me my kid with "trisomy 4p" was going to someday earn a baseball trophy, I wouldn't have believed it!

Eating is still chugging along. The State (in their infinite wisdom) decreased Jackson's feeding therapy from 1 time per week to 1 time per month. My 7 year old is mainly existing on baby food and formula. We're hoping that for the next eligibility period we can get them to up it, at least a little.

Object du Jour: MG and tons of plastic letters.