Continued Success at School

You might recall on Week 2 of school, I explained the communication system Jimmo is using at both school and home. PECS, Picture Exchange Communication System, has been working quite well for him and each week he has been successfully graduating to the next phase. Without going into too much detail with the phases, below is a video from this afternoon as Mrs. Terrific Teacher is working on some new trials with him. You can see the two other sweet boys in his classroom on the video and one of the two wonderful classroom aides. And so you're not confused with the voices you hear, one of little guys is using his talking device for his communication system which you'll hear in the background.

In this video, Little Man does two out of three successful trials trying to ask for his rice cake sandwich. I know that sounds so delicious doesn't it? But truly it's such a perfect lunch for him. The crunch of the rice cake satisfies his oral needs and is conveniently gluten free and the peanut butter is good protein. Jelly is always a bonus isn't it? Happy Friday Everyone!

Little Man Turns 3 - Happy Birthday!

Little man loves when people sing to him, so we basically sang Happy Birthday all day long. Jimmo woke up well rested and ready to go to school.

He had a great day at school and Princess and I came at the end of the day with cupcakes for the kiddos and teachers. This was my first baking experience with GFCF, interesting to say the least but you can see he enjoyed his cupcake. The actual cupcake was fine but the icing was slightly greasy in my opinion.We visited his favorite park since it was such a nice day. We were the only one's there so we took advantage and stayed till we could play no more.On Saturday we had our family celebration. Each year we celebrate Jimmo's birthday at this great farm out in the country. It takes almost an hour to get there, but we (especially me) love it and we look forward to it every year. They have farm animals, pig races, a cow train, pumpkin trampoline, tons of slides and an apple dumpling to just die for. But the highlight this year was their giant pumpkin trampoline. Little man dragged us back three times to go on this. Here's a great video of how much he enjoys it. Do you see a trampoline in our future?

And a few more pictures to enjoy....



And later that night we had one of little man's favorite meals - Chili. He loves somewhat spicy foods like a lot of kiddos with Hypotonia because it wakes up their little mouths. The 2nd GFCF baked good - birthday cake - was little to be desired but we all attempted to eat it. We'll get it right for his 4th birthday. Happy Birthday Little Man!