Day 127, 128 into 129

Josh has had pretty good days. The chart system is working for getting on the bus- he gets right out of the car and onto the bus to earn a "piece of the donut" - the deal is he earns 5 pieces of the chart and then gets a real donut. But, it's like he has to have the PNES or meltdown so he's been having it in the house. Stinker knows the deal was he has to get out of the car and onto the bus without laying down, so that's what he's doing. Hhhmmm...

Construction outside the house yesterday and today - new street going down (yeah!). Lots of trucks and noise. The afternoon bus was not going to be able to come down to our house so I went up to the top of the hill to meet them - Josh got off without too much hesitation or problem (yeah!).

The class was at SEDOM yesterday and Josh WENT IN THE POOL again! Yeah!!!

Had his first piano lesson last night (Day 128) and did just an AWESOME job! Turns out the music therapist doing the lessons knows Josh's very first music therapist from Ottawa - they were even roommates during training/college! Small, small world. They worked on numbering his fingers, identifying numbers and black keys in both the music book and on the keyboard, she had him "playing" the black keys, and, really creepy, she put on a CD of some piano music and he was plunking on keys that were in the same key/same notes as on the CD - weird! The therapist was a bit hesitant based on what the NISRA folks had told her about his experiences at camp this past summer. But, within minutes of starting the lesson, she said she didn't see any problem with him taking piano and thinks this is going to be great (for him and in general)! As the lesson was ending, she said he is just delightful to work with! YEAH!!!

Another weird - after the lesson, I said he did so well that we would pick up dinner and go see trains for a car picnic. I called in the food order to the restaurant and, when we parked there, he said "Eat inside." I was stunned! He hates restaurants! It looked really crowded so I said I'd check it out first - and it was really packed. So I went back to the car and told him, then asked if he really wanted to go in or eat at the trains - trains. But, maybe next time!

The power of music!

Today, Day 129, is parent-teacher conference and the first of the team meetings for the wrap around services - sure hope the wrap around facilitator remembers!