Hello all! After seeing Mariah's cute pictures, I thought it might be fun to put up some pictures of my own. They are Aiden's school picture for preschool this year, his T-ball picture....(t-ball which turned out to be not such a good idea after all...) Bub graduating with his masters degree in Mental Health Counseling (how long has our family needed a therapist in it?!!!) and Emma. Her hair is finally long enough to put in teeny tiny little pig tails. Of course, she pulls them right out, but her therapists have been wanting her to reach her arms up to do things- so the effort isn't totally wasted. We ordered a wheelchair for her yesterday. She is still doing well with her efforts to learn to walk, and her therapists have every confidence that she will succeed one day. But she'll keep growing and it will be harder to carry her around, or keep her in the stroller. Also, one of the therapies that she gets goes through the school system and they only go till kids turn 3. After that she has to go to a special needs preschool. The wheelchair will help support her to sit up for longer periods of time like that since her upper body strength is lacking. We'll soon also be getting a "gait trainer" which is a fancy walker. Something tells me our multi-level house won't work for much longer, but on the bright side, I'll be getting some good parking spots!
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Emma's pigtails are cute. I can't believe how grown up Aiden is. How old is he now 4 or 5? How come t-ball wasn't such a good idea?
Aiden is 5. He will be starting kindergarten! we signed Aiden up for t-ball because we thought he would love it, and because it's hard for him when Emma has all her therapy (2-3 times a week) he can't understand why the therapists only want to play with Emma. They bring extra toys for him and are really good and nice with him, but the attention thing is hard for him. He feels left out and neglected. We thought it would be good for him to have his own thing. anyway....in t-ball, even though he was one of the oldest kids on the team, he was the smallest on the team, and a few of the other boys bullied him quite a bit. One of them actually put his hand in a fist and decked Aiden in the face! They wouldn't let him in the dugout, or would push him down onto the ground and kick him....needless to say, it brought out similar behavior in Aiden. However, he was still afraid to confront his bullies and took his frustrations out on all the other kids. It was a bad situation. He kept telling us he didn't like t-ball and didn't want to go, but we were trying to be good parents and teach him to not give up & keep your commitments etc. but, it just got too bad. We ended up not even going to the last two games. He says he doesn't want to sign up again next year and I can't blame him. He still got a trophy though, and was SO EXCITED about it and SO PROUD of it. Bless his heart.
Where were the parents of the bullies and the coach? I thought these kids activities was to teach children team spirit, cooperation, etc...
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I am so sorry to hear that. I can't believe how cruel kids can be. I totally agree with Mel, where were the kids parents and also the coach? Somebody should have been there refereeing.
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