Fail

I have totally failed at this year's 31 for 21. Being sick for a straight week has kicked my butt. I am hoping that I will be much better by the weekend and I can do more for Down syndrome awareness! For now here is Addy's school pic. Had to take a pic of the pic (no scanner and it's illegal)! They are pretty darn cute if I do say so myself :)

I tried to get a good pic of Addy's cute new glasses (she had her old ones on in her school pic) but she was being a little uncooperative, she's got a case of my gunk and isn't feeling very well. She isn't leaving these frames on any better than her other ones. She doesn't touch them at school but the second we are in the car they are off and she only wears them for short periods of time at home before she chucks them across the room :( it's so frustrating!

We had her IEP this morning, it went really well. She attends a reversed mainstream Pre-K class from 8:30-11:30 Monday through Thursday. She is pulled out one hour per week for physical therapy. She gets an hour of OT per week as well as two and a half hours of speech therapy weekly, outside of class. She attends music (her absolute FAVORITE), PE, library, art and computer lab each week as well. Addy mastered all of her IEP goals from last year with the exception of interaction with peers. She is finally doing that but not at the level we would like for her to:) Almost every goal has a hint of a compliance to it :) Addy performs on her terms. Makes us crazy! She hasn't identified colors for her teacher in class, however, Friday night at the football game she did. All of them :) She has trouble with shapes but she did identify three of them during speech :) She recites the entire alphabet (with the exception of Q), identifies the majority of the Uppercase letters and a handful of lowercase, rote counts to at least 20 (we can't understand her after 20) and counts one-to-one correspondence to about 6 but that's just when she absolutely feels like it. Academically she actually above average, which is awesome! If we could just get her steadier on her feet, potty trained and interacting with her peers more I think it will be a very successful year! It's all on her terms. We've got to find the trick to breaking this, she knows so much more than she lets people know. Fortunately, the entire staff sees that and knows how smart and capable she is!