1) Last night Charlotte was hanging from the door frame in the living room and decided to try to shimmy. She has not really tried it because it is hard to do. I heard her give herself positive self talk. "You can do this. You are going to do this." And then she fell lol, but I think she made it a tiny distance first.
2) We just has a psychoeducational eval done in Nov. The only thing they said she was really behind in academically is spelling. Some of this is probably the nature of Montessori schools stressing phonetics longer, some is the nature of her attention span and not taking the time to really break apart the sounds, but also there is the potential for this to be a sign of a problem, so I was prepared to start some in-home spelling practice and whatnot, and meanwhile her teacher had actually already started some vowel-intensive reviews. Well, in typical Charlotte fashion, as soon as I really start to get concerned about something, she begins to really improve. She has taken a big interest in spelling all on her own. She constantly asks "how do you spell ___" and will say "I know how to spell ___." Normally she is looking at the word and cheating so to speak, but it's still good for her to hear herself say it out loud, so we just encourage it. Last week she spelled "Sunday." I am 99% sure there wasn't a visual prompt. We were in the car. I heard her say, "Sunday." Then she broke it apart by sounds: ssss-uh-un-duh-ay-yuh. She was silent for a little bit and spelled it out correctly. The Y on the end didn't even trick her. Plus we had gone a few blocks by then so if there was a visual cue, it was long gone and at least it shows her working memory is good .
Oh and she did a piano and a vocal song at her winter recital. Her voice is so pretty! She sang ahead of the background music a little bit and then skipped a line, but she sounded darn good doing it .
And finally, I'm not insane yet! There have been a few days that were a little rough, but so far the anxiety beast has been kept at bay this Christmas season.
AWs like this one make me appreciate this board: DS has gotten in trouble three times this week for talking to peers too much or getting off task.
This is a kid that used to be so anxious about misbehavior that he would cry when other people got in trouble. Last year in school, he thought that the lunch ladies hated the entire second grade. I sat in lunch one day and they were asking completely reasonable, non yelling, requests to stay in seats and remember to eat, not just talk.
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