Annie will usually only be scheduled to have two hours of therapy on Saturdays, but they told us they could fit her in for extra sessions if they had availability and we were interested. Obviously my reply was an emphatic YES! Today she was so excited to get to have two sessions of PT AND two sessions of OT! Since she’s not allowed to stand or walk outside of therapy time, we figure the more supervised core strengthening we can do, the better!
Annie has so much fun with her therapists that she DOESN’T want me coming along. So I took a walk out around the park part of Navy Pier during her first session and did “yoga for back pain” (strangely, there wasn’t a youtube video of “yoga for moms who are lifting 40 pound children in and out of bed and on and off the potty twenty times a day”) during her second session. Since she had me up overnight at 3:30 (had to go a very little), 5 (false alarm), and 6 (false alarm), today was a good day for sunshine (and four cups of tea!).
Annie was so excited to get to ride the special bike again today!
And then we had a few hours to kill before her last session of the day and decided to officially start kindergarten! For me, preschool is all the pre-reading and number sense skills (plus millions of read- and plenty of free play), and kindergarten is when we actually start learning how to read, using my trusty Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, which taught the other four to read. Annie was thrilled to start phonics and feels like she’s getting to be such a big kid now.
