Sandcastles and Mud Pies: A New Week

Sunday, the start of a new week. Last week was pretty successful as far as weeks go. We got a lot accomplished between Beans's IEP meeting, his real first day of third grade, and the start of my semester. It's a bit hard on Beans getting into the flow of things again, especially missing that all important first week with his friends. He had a couple days of tears after he got home on Tuesday and Wednesday, but he did really awesome at school. Thursday he had no tears, but came home with a fever. :( He stopped tolerating his feeds, was congested, coughing and miserable. School was out Friday, but he's going again tomorrow. Hopefully he can make it longer before getting sick this time.

Little Man, on the other hand, did an amazing "first" on Thursday. He did his homework - by himself and without being told - while on the bus coming home!!! Now, to understand how HUGE this is you have to understand that he has an incredibly short attention span, very, very delayed fine motor skills so writing is beyond difficult, and has never been self-motivated to do anything unrelated to an obsession of his in his life. So when he told me he'd already completed his homework I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't believe him. I checked it out and sure enough - not only had he completed it, but he did an awesome job! Is this a sign he's maturing? Is the higher dose of seizure meds making a difference? I don't know but I am one proud mama! :D

Yesterday we hung around the house, letting Beans rest and enjoying our time together...while I made sure the washing machine got a good workout. ;) Then today we went with Grandma J to a bird expo. We were running early so we stopped at Sonic and picked up chicken for Little Man and I to share and Beans had a favorite EOS lunch - Sonic ice with a side of Nintendo DSi. :D

The bird expo was really fun. The boys especially enjoyed the couple week old parrots. They were ugly, but so cute. Both of them had amazing behavior, even with all the brightly colored toys, lots of people and a fair amount of noise. Beans reacted to something while we were there and ended up congested and not feeling fabulous, but still had a great time.

Little Man was proud to get a bird tattoo. He was so happy with it I let him keep it on until morning when we'll have to wash it off for school. Hopefully we don't have too many tears when the time comes.