Abbey Update

So behind on my blogs, so I'm going to do things a little differently.  I'm going to share how Abbey has been doing since school started.  And using just phone pictures for now.  Here she is at the pre school open house, where she got to meet the teacher and see the class.  She was so nervous and excited the night before! And she was up before five. It was short and sweet, but she got the lay of the land.  I took her around to the library and gym and cafeteria and she was excited about each. 

First day of school.  She jumped right in.  She did a little crying at the end of the day, but has handled her emotions really well.  She will cry if I'm one of the last parents so I try not to be. 

She has OT, speech and a support teacher in and out.  We met last week and they want us to find her a new school that is more 'play based'.  Todd is totally against changing her and I am mostly in agreement.  I see their point-she needs more social skills but they also philosophically just don't understand what the structure Cathiloc schools give and it helped Adam get ready for kindergarten. 

Abbey loves school.  She adjusted to the move really well after three weeks of commuting.  She loves this house and got upset last week when we went to the other house empty.  I think it's hard to see it like that.  Adam didn't like it either. 

She does come home with reports of having poked or pushed someone. The teachers just love her so they don't see it I think!

They have a dance program at the school and while looking for dance shoes yesterday, we ended up at the remodeled Disney store. Boy, was she in love!

And we found her shoes.  She's so excited to be ballerina Abbey :). And she loves the mall now!  She's come so far and she still has much growing to do...