Shrimples Birthday

 Well Shrimples is 4 he is officially a big guy now, although he has been telling people he has been 4 for a good year.  Shrimples went to Kindy and shared his ironman cupcakes with his Peers and then we picked him up and drove down south for the weekend, Fish and Chip dinner, swimming, bouncing and water slides (which he had to go down with me ) we had a great time Peanut was sick  ( temp From Tuesday afternoon) and finally got better on the sunday we left  ( typical)   but we ate at brewreys and wineries and had a good time the boys were really good apart from occasional moaning by Shrimples and on the last day running away by  Peanut well not so much running away but thinking he was on a racetrack and we were racing and nothing we could say would make him think others wise.  I have some News about Peanut but  Id like ot keep this about Shrimples my amazing little munckin so Ill talk about Peanuts things later .

Shrimples made a Friend in Teddy ( he loves stuff toys)  who just by per coincidence  happen to have Autism and be 2.5 years in his journey infront of Peanut  went through the same sort of schooling issues ETC  and  not only was that bizzare in its self that they became best friends but also that I knew Teddies Mother! from a private Facebook page we had never met in person but it was funny how we sussed each other out and then got on really well.

So now we are back at the rat race and  Since monday Shrimples has gone to bed with no nappies  first night he woke up dry  second night wet and last night he woke up dry at 5:30am but decided to lay in bed until daddy went and got him at 6:30 which meant his bed by then was soaking ! argh  ohh well no stress little bladder blah blah  I just so want there to be no nappies in this house.

Shrimples is doing really well in school writting and spelling his name and telling me what letters everything starts with. His beautiful drawing on the other hand has gotten  umm how do I say this  .. well they have turned to shit  just lots of scribbles  one today he drew was all black with three dots on the outside and one on the inside it looked like crap ! LOL   but we discussed the drawing and like  a good mummy I praised hm accordingly apprently its a cave and He is stuck in it and  Daddy mummy and peanut are all outside yelling " Where are you Shrimples, Shrimples where are you? " but he just cant find his way out cause the noises are too loud !!!...... umm  I think I need a psychologist for this child LOL  here are some picture of my handsome little man on his Big 4th !!

POST IEP STRESS

The IEP the IEP where do we start  I think I’m gonna break it down into  point forms

• ·      School was stunned to find out Peanut had Brains !
• ·      School was stunned to find out there is no magic cure for Peanuts behaviours
• ·      Peanuts Early intervention teacher is my new hero
• ·      Too many things are making Peanut struggle at the moment( too many EAs coming and going, too many kids, noises in classroom  Rules to follow without visuals supports in place to make sure he understand them. 
• ·      Even at EI Peanut is a pain in the arse
• ·      Peanuts strength is reading people very quickly
• ·      School is really making peanut do nothing!(work wise) 
• ·      EI teacher is going to get MS teacher to visit (actually MS teachers suggestion)
• ·      EI teacher and Therapy team will make up visuals for MS classroom and for Peanut
• ·      Deputy wants full time Aid time for him funded which EI teacher will help application with
• ·      School was interested to hear Peanut is playing them by acting as if he cant do a lot
• ·      Psychologists said nothing !! at all, all meeting just wrote a lot down !!
• ·      I felt supported by Peanuts EI teacher, She really does understand him which is lovely - She will be over seeing this MS transition
• ·      We are implementing a time out spot for him at MS with a 3 minute timer  ( which is what we use at EI and home)
• ·      Therapist will go in and work with Peanut and other students to help with social interactions and make sure hte teachers know how to use the Visuals schedules and social stories. 
•   The EI teacher did said she was ready to yell and get agressive but she didn't have to so thats a win

Really I felt it went well , I felt I would let the academically goals slide a bit as he is getting them at EI and therapy at the moment ( his accidemic goals at EI are actually quite high they want him reading by mid year) and I felt it was better he settle into the class routine and let them get visuals in place before pushing him too far. We have set a meeting for early next term which is when I will be pushing for the academic goals.  

Peanuts EI IEP he achieved 80% of in 3 weeks again !!!  which is great and I’m honestly surprised how bright he really he I knew he was bright but lately I’ve seen some massive things from him that is beyond age appropriate for a kid that’s zoned out 70% of the time I think thats amazing.

Summary

Its all a waste of time  if no one follows through so now my chasing up job begins  I have put my name down for class helped on the 21^st of March so I can see if things are in place.

 hearing all your sons problems with school and life is hard even though you know them already but I try to focus on some of the good points which were his intelligence level and his ability to make very detailed Pictures out of magnet shapes LOL 

Im positive the next meeting (if all is put in place) will be alot more positive.

 I am emotionally exhausted! I find these things take a real emotional strain on me and I take a while to recover.. 

I got that IEP sinking feeling

So  this will be quick cause really Im just trying to waste time before heading off to the BIG DUN DUN DUNNN IEP meeting.. 

all Ive heard are horror stories so Im not expecting this to go well but you never know my interal optimist is peeking through ever so slightly telling me to calm the  fuck down and hard the fuck up..  So   30 minutes till the big HOOO HAAAAA... GULP  I think I just swollowed to spew .. seeya round