The Holidays

Well, we made it through all the holidays without any major issues! Logan did get somewhat confused with how long Christmas is supposed to last. We celebrated Christmas with our friends in Valdosta, GA on Dec 20th. Then Christmas with my side of the family on Christmas. Spent New Years day with Adam's mom and celebrated Christmas. So he had Christmas presents to open every week for three weeks. He absolutely loved it! Everytime we would hand him a gift he would say "For Me?".

Christmas in Tampa was so much fun. We spent a day at the Lowry Park Zoo and he really enjoyed watching the monkeys and playing with the penguins. He had one penguin following him back and forth. It was so funny and adorable. His cousins joined us for the day at the zoo and had fun showing him the different animals and telling stories about previous visits. We let them play in the water and I just had to laugh. Logan was having a blast in his swimming trunks, running through the sprays and getting soaked. Meanwhile other parents and families are walking past in their sweaters and coats. It was like 70 that day....you can tell we definately adjusted to cooler weather. The next day (my niecess birthday) was spent at Clearwater Beach. The water was a little chilly, but Logan went running right in and jumping around. He was splashing everyone and would jump with the waves. We went out to where the water was up to his chest and everytime the waves would come, he would hold on to one of us. I asked him if he wanted to go closer to the beach and his answer was always "No momma, I playing". We thought about going on The Little Toot, but decided that the ocean breeze might be a little too much for my niece. We have always seen dolphins while riding on The Little Toot, so I was a little bummed that we wouldn't see dolphins this trip. Low and behold, while we were swimming, some dolphins started to jump just past the swimming line. I got to see dolphins!!! Logan told us he could jump like a dolphin.

Christmas day was busy, but wonderful. We got to see almost all of our family and Logan did very well with keeping focus. It seemed on that day that he had no sensory problems at all! There was a lot of activity and he LOVED it. He wanted to help everyone open their gifts. We would ask him to take a gift to someone and he would hand it to them saying "Happy Birthday". By the end of the day, everything was "Merry Christmas". Near the end of the week he was telling us that he was ready to go home. As soon as we got home, he wanted to go see Grandpa again...LOL.

After Christmas with Adam's mom on New Years, we began playing his 5th birthday party. When I asked him what kind of party he wanted, he said "Transformers Wall E". And so began the planning.

Pre-K Progress report

Oh boy it has been awhile since I wrote. Logan had his progress report for Pre-K and as I expected, he is "Not as Excepted" on most everything. While he has made MAJOR progress since going to Wauka Mountain, he still has several communication problems and we are learning more about his sensory processes issues. They informed me that he is doing better at circle time as long as he does not have to sit within the circle (a sensory issue). He still has bad days whenever anything is off schedule or routine. They said as far as his skills go, he needs more practice at home. Which we work with him every evening and on the weekends. So we decided to get him the V Motion gaming system from V Smile. Our friends has one and we watched him play a sorting game and a pattern making game. He did pretty good, but I could see where he was having problems. So maybe between that and us working with him at home, we can get him up to par with his classmates.

The good news is that he is being more social now with his classmates. They said if one of them falls, he will ask them if they are ok. He will also go up to one of his classmates and ask if they would like to play with him. If they do not answer him, he will say "Please play with me. I said please." However, the social comes with newer problems we haven't experienced before. Around strangers Logan used to be very quite and not speak to them at all. Now he will walk up to anyone and tap them on their leg to talk to them. We need to start teaching him some boundaries. It's hard, you try to remove some of their boundries they put up because of their disabilities and now I have to teach him to put one up.

I am still trying to find an answer to get him to sleep more at night. He is almost 5 and he will only sleep 8 hrs a night. Then he falls asleep at school while they are reading stories. When he wakes up in the morning, he is so wide awake it is hard to tell him to go back to bed. So we are working on that and teaching stranger danger.