After school actvity

For the past 6 weeks on Tuesdays, Adam has been going to "Science, Science, Science!"  after school. He loved it and was sad that Tuesday was the last day.  The newest after-school-activity brochure came out today and guess what Adam wants to do?  Swim? Math? Make cupcakes? Nope! Wrestle!!  Yes, they have a wrestling class for K-6!  Ha ha!  I can't wait to see what he thinks of it. They will even have a little tournament at the end.

As a side note and completely unrelated, Adam had his quarterly ultrasound on Friday.  This is the first time we have gotten any abnormal results but thankfully not liver or kidneys. He had a slightly enlarged spleen.  His doctor is not concerned since everything else was normal.  She said we will just recheck it at his next one in May.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Here is a picture I tried to take after Adam lost his tooth.  Can't really tell but it's a cute picture anyway!

 

Today Adam had a big Valentine's Day party at school with his class and their 4th grade buddies.  Adam gave everyone a superhero valentine that came with a sticker and an edible gummy wrist band.

Here are some pictures at the party.

Hands up and listen when the chime rings.

Adam and one of his buddies decorating cookies.

Adam giving his buddies cards they made in class.

Decorating cookies.

Playing BINGO with buddies.

The Kinders got to watch their buddies in the gym for Jump Rope for Your Heart.  One of his teachers said Adam was dancing like crazy.  She said they couldn't believe it was the same kid!  Ha ha!  He loves his music!

Adam also made us some Valentines.  They are entertaining!  This first one he made at school.

Front: Mom you love me.  I love you.

Inside : and I love you.  We might get into fights but I still love you.

Back: Dad sometimes we get into fights but I still love you. To mom and dad.

Apparently we fight a lot??  Funny 'cause we rarely yell anymore since he's been in school.

Then he made these at home:

Front: Mom and Dad, I love you.  I try to not get in trouble but you're still my Valentine's.  My mistake.  I love Dad 99% and Mom 100%

 My mistake?? What?  He just laughed when we asked.

Back:  Have a great Valentine's Day from Adam Aikins. Happy Valentine's Day.

Inside Happy Valetine's Day.  (Lots of balloons - not sperm.  :)) Adam Aikins written fancy.

 And for the dogs:

Ramona, I hope your eye gets better.  Olive, when you grow up I think you will be just like Kirby.

So I made this card just for you two.  (and a bunch of balloons with dog faces in them)

Another tooth out!

Adam has had this one bottom tooth that has been wiggling for a while now. Today was the day he was finally able to yank it out.  Then he asked if he was going to get $5 for it. Ummmm...no. So that's 3 teeth now - the 2 bottom middle and the 1 right next to them on his left side.   Now he's going to work on the bottom tooth on the right side that is slightly loose.  Maybe some top ones will loosen in the meantime.  :)

I tricked Adam

Adam had gone to bed Tuesday before we got the call from school that it would be closed on Wednesday.  I heard him up around 8am Wednesday.  I came downstairs and asked, "Adam?  What are you doing here?  My alarm didn't go off and you should have gotten me up!  We are late for school!!"  He looked at me all panicked and asked,  "What?  What time is it?"  I said, "It's 8:30! We're already a half hour late!"  He was just about to start crying.  I felt soo bad!  "Just kidding, Buddy!  It's another snow day!" He was all, "You almost made me cry!!!"    Ha ha!! 

Dentist and Doctor day

Adam is rounding out 2013 with his appointments in one day! 

He was super good at the dentist.  His 6 year molars are all coming in and he still has one wiggly tooth.  He got his first set of x-rays and fluoride treatment today. Very exciting?

Six year check-up at the pediatrician.  Not very patient waiting in the exam room. He decided that lying on the doctors' rolling chair and launching himself from wall to wall was the best way to entertain himself.  Or doing backwards somersaults on top of the exam table.   Fun! He is up to 53 lbs and 49.25 in.  (80-something percentile for weight and 95 percentile for height).  He was very relieved that he didn't need any shots.  Just the flu vaccine (which doesn't kick in for 2 weeks and everyone seems to be coming down with it). 

He was cracking me up with his answers to Dr. N's questions. He knew he should answer with healthy things - His favorite food being fruit and and his favorite vegetable being broccoli.  HA!  He told her he likes to play outside and play freeze tag (- but that's only at school).  I didn't say anything but she did tell him he should only have 2 hours of screen time.  He said OK and even came home and told Dave.  She also told him she would like him to learn to ride his bike this summer and to try one new activity.  I told her I've been asking him if he would like to go back to piano or maybe guitar lessons, basketball, soccer, or tai kwon do and he always says no.  The place I box at has a combination tkd class (kids and adults) so maybe if I do it with him, it will get him started.  As Dr. N. said - many kids that "have a lot of energy" tend to like the martial arts. We shall see....

Contacted Westerville Schools

Last week I contacted Westerville Schools to see if they would be able to provide any addititional speech therapy for Adam since we are in the district.    As I was emailing the lady I had spoken to about it last year, I was thinking how speech is usually done during the school day and chances would be slim.  I kind of would have preferred the response to be that but I for some reason the response I got rubbed me the wrong way.  "Since your son is not registered in and attending Westerville City Schools, the district is not able to provide services for him".   

Quick, to the point, and no apologies.  I'm just a little overly sensitive, I guess. 

Progress Report time

Today we had our parent/teacher conference to go over Adam's Fall progress report.  In a word, Adam is doing great!  They really didn't have a bad thing to say and he is right on track with everything. Yay!  The couple of journal entries we got to see were fantastic!  He's trying really hard to sound everything out and spell and the stories were entertaining.  The only thing was that in some of his journal entries he would write "w" instead of "r" because that's how he hears himself.  Same thing with "sh" and "ch" which he is working on in speech.  They said he has started to hang out with more of the kids (instead of Will who he seemed to be obsessed with at the beginning of the year and who may be a bit of a bully) and that he is very empathetic. 

During our conference, Adam went to CASE (they had people to watch the kids at school so you could go to your conference without having to find a babysitter for 1/2 an hour).  Adam thought it was the best and did not want to leave.  He watched a movie and was about to play video games when we picked him up.  He has been asking to go to CASE after school because some of his friends go and I had to explain that it was for kids whose parents weren't home after school and needed someone to watch them.  BUT - he really wanted to sign up for an after school activity that starts in January called "Science, Science, Science!". He will get to spend a little time in CASE before the activity starts.  He is soo excited! 
 
We also got a progress report from his speech teacher (which he has had maybe 3 times).  She said he is producing the "ch" sound about 70% of the time (the goal is 90%).  It was pretty amazing to me because the first week he worked on "ch", he brought home a little book to read/practice.  He really sounded like he was saying "sh" and I would try to help him and he got frustrated.  The next time he had speech, he came home with another little book and it sounded really good!  We never had that quick of a change when were at Columbus Speech and Hearing. Unfortunately in the progress report it said,

"Additional speech and language services are recommended outside of school at least once per week, to promote mastery of identified phoneme productions to improve his overall speech intelligibility in the classroom and across settings."

Looks like we may be going back to CSH.  :(  

Adam had a hearing screening at school about a week ago.  We got a letter from the nurse suggesting a trip to the ENT for a hearing test because he had issues at 20b, 1000, and 4000.  We are used to seeing the 4000 but the other 2 were a surprise. So I wrote to the nurse an email about our journey since last summer's dog toy incident. I let her know he just had a hearing test in August that came back within normal limits and that he has collapsing ear canals when head phones are used (and he had a cold last week- not sure if that would affect it but just in case).  She said she would put the email with all the info I wrote in his file and no need for another test. :)  I am getting a copy of the audiologists report from St. Louis just so we have it for our files.  All they had sent was a letter saying within normal limits.  

Adam requested

I think that's about all the excitement here!