I totally forgot to write a monthly post for August, month 3, so this will have to suffice for both...
We made it through YMCA camp, and it was Dominic's last year. we're currently brainstorming ideas for next year as he's aged out of the day camp. Top of the list is the idea of a nanny/companion for 4-5 hours a day while both Mom and Dad are working to do things like hiking, swimming, the zoo, etc. Someone to keep him safe and help him have fun / be active instead of him sitting on the ipad all summer.
The transition to school was rough. It was a combination of the teacher actually expecting him to do academic work and the solar eclipse which threw him into an inexplicable funk. If I hadn't seen every other child I know of on the spectrum equally thrown off I wouldn't have believed it. We have finally gotten into a groove where the comments coming home from school are positive.
His sense of self awareness is sky rocketing, and i'm sure thats partially that puberty has arrived. He has spontaneously started plucking his eyebrows (just the unabrow part)... he has started using pimple treatment at night...
His OT and ST sessions have resumed and every single session OT tells me what an astonishing thing Dominic has done. He's going to be starting social group there very soon (unofficially, they will be able to pull out and do one on one as needed)
the ducks are very much his. Here he is with new boots just for taking care of the ducks. He looks so, teenager, here.
And just to remind us all that he's still cognitively very much NOT a teenager, here he is doing a MIGHTY EAGLE from the movie Angry birds...
This is Dominics little friend Dexter. I'm teaching Dexters mother how to cook, so they are over once a week on Wednesdays and Dominic and Dexter chase each other. Dominic is astonishingly tender with Dexter, and very much wants to take care of him.
PMB Hemp oil in addition to our IonCleanse by AMD footbaths has catapulted us to a completely different trajectory. I don't know what that is just yet, but I do know that Dominic is doing little things, rather consistently, that have us going "What just happened".
We made it through YMCA camp, and it was Dominic's last year. we're currently brainstorming ideas for next year as he's aged out of the day camp. Top of the list is the idea of a nanny/companion for 4-5 hours a day while both Mom and Dad are working to do things like hiking, swimming, the zoo, etc. Someone to keep him safe and help him have fun / be active instead of him sitting on the ipad all summer.
The transition to school was rough. It was a combination of the teacher actually expecting him to do academic work and the solar eclipse which threw him into an inexplicable funk. If I hadn't seen every other child I know of on the spectrum equally thrown off I wouldn't have believed it. We have finally gotten into a groove where the comments coming home from school are positive.
His sense of self awareness is sky rocketing, and i'm sure thats partially that puberty has arrived. He has spontaneously started plucking his eyebrows (just the unabrow part)... he has started using pimple treatment at night...
His OT and ST sessions have resumed and every single session OT tells me what an astonishing thing Dominic has done. He's going to be starting social group there very soon (unofficially, they will be able to pull out and do one on one as needed)
the ducks are very much his. Here he is with new boots just for taking care of the ducks. He looks so, teenager, here.
And just to remind us all that he's still cognitively very much NOT a teenager, here he is doing a MIGHTY EAGLE from the movie Angry birds...
This is Dominics little friend Dexter. I'm teaching Dexters mother how to cook, so they are over once a week on Wednesdays and Dominic and Dexter chase each other. Dominic is astonishingly tender with Dexter, and very much wants to take care of him.
PMB Hemp oil in addition to our IonCleanse by AMD footbaths has catapulted us to a completely different trajectory. I don't know what that is just yet, but I do know that Dominic is doing little things, rather consistently, that have us going "What just happened".
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