End of Season

The end of May signifies the end of a couple of things, school and my girls soccer season.  This soccer season has taken us to different places and has introduced us to some nice people.  I have to say this soccer season brought us a lot of great soccer and some great opportunities for learning.  We learned last year that things can change without any notice and we understand that with the end of the soccer season anything goes when it comes to the team my girl is on.  The future is always uncertain when it comes to everything, but the one thing that is for certain is that we are always moving forward.  I know some of you have heard me say that before, this is our family motto,  I borrowed it from Meet the Robinson's.  This time of year is always full of new and fun things.  Summer is approaching, school is ending which always means that things are going to change again and there really isn't anything we can do about this but to just jump in with both feet and go for it.  So before we jump into summer I wanted to just recap our year of soccer and school with pictures.  Here is to a great year for both my kids and a warm welcome for summer. We are ready!! 

2 Weeks Left

Summer break is approaching fast and to be honest the two weeks leading up to the break are just a blur.  There is all the end of year activities that take place that fill up our schedule and cause me to spin in all directions.  Every night this week my girl has something and two of the events that she is participating in I think are worth mentioning here.  She is involved in Peer Connections at her school.  Peer Connections is a group of students hand picked by their teachers to team up with their peers that have special needs.  They play games and socialize with them, basically they are trying to give the children that have special needs the opportunity to practice on their social skills along with making some new friends.  Tomorrow they are having a day of sharing and are going on a field trip.  I wish I knew more about the event but you see my child is getting to the age of questions asked, little info given.  All I know is that I am extremely proud that she is involved with this group.  The second event is Friday night and she is participating with her fellow National Junior Honor Society peeps in the Relay For Life at the high school.  Her group raised money all year and I can't wait to hear how much they raised.  The event takes place all night long but she has an early soccer game so she will be leaving early.   Each year that passes she gets closer to graduation and honestly I am not ready for that so let's move on.

 My boy's end of year activities do not require any after school time but he did get to go to the high school to see the Toad and the Frog.  Honestly I wasn't sure about him going since we can't get him in any kind of auditorium.  That silly boy followed his peers into the auditorium and watched half of the play.  Now of course he cringed each time the kids laughed and clapped causing the whole event to just take all of his energy from him.  He could only tolerate the first half but he did it and I was so proud.  I took the flyer for the event and wrote on it his accomplishments that day and of course I dated it.  I love what school is providing my kids.  They are introducing them to things that I would not be able to.  My boy would never do some of the things that he does at school for me and on top of that he is interacting with his peers everyday and making friends.  I see this happening when I pick him up.  Kids are saying bye to him.  I like to think that the kids at my boys school are learning something about acceptance.  My boy doesn't talk but he is communicating with these kids and they are understanding him.  So I have to say this year so far has been a success.  I guess the only thing left to do here is get ready for summer!!

Monkey Business

So recently my boy has discovered the cartoon, Curious George. He is funny when it comes to what he watches. He has a few things that he watches over and over and Phineas and Ferb has been his favorite for a while and we were glad when he switched from Dora to Phineas and Ferb. But Curious George is different because my boy imitates George as much as he can. We watch him with pleasure but the other night he included us in his pretend play. George was having x-rays done of his foot and then the doctor put a cast on it and this is where we come in. My boy needed someone to x-ray his foot and then it needed to be wrapped, just like George. My boy is eight and when other kids were pretending to feed their babies or have Godzilla smash an entire town, he was playing with his cause and effect toys. As he got older he mastered the iTouch without being shown and now he uses my iPad with ease.

We have always encouraged pretend play but at some point you just come to realize that maybe just maybe it isn't going to happen. Looking back on the situation where he invited us in to play with him, I realize now that we must have looked confused and uncertain about our role and what was being asked of us. But it didn't take us long, we x-rayed and wrapped his foot so many times and honestly I think we could have done it all night long, but a little pretending boy needs his sleep.  So we had to say goodnight to George and my boy hobbled off to get his teeth brushed with his foot still wrapped.  I am not sure everyone will understand how this moment of monkey business made us all feel.  We even hollered at my girl so she could see what was going on and of course she was just as happy as we were when she saw that little foot wrapped.  Several things were happening here that don't normally happen and for starters he was allowing us to wrap his foot while he sat there.  I can't get him dressed without a wrestling match so this was just unusual.  Second he included us!

I often forget about all that my boy doesn't do until one day he goes and acts like a monkey and realize I have missed that all this time.