Cain wasn't too excited about his first day back to school. He woke up with the usual symptoms: ("my legs are broke", "my head hurts" and "my eyeball's broke.") Then it was, "I was just there yesterday!" Even though it was almost three months ago since he went last. Once the big yellow bus came, I think he was ready to go... I mean, afterall, when you ride a bus to school you're a big kid!
For those of you who may not know Cain really well, he's a pill to say the least. And I know some of you are probably wondering," Why is he going by himself?"... "Where are the other two?" And I'll explain. Between the age of 18months and 2 years, we noticed Cain was a little different than the other two. He had lots of "quirks" and some traits of OCD. It got to the point that we were really concerned about him, so we got involved with First Steps. It was probably the best decision we ever made. First Steps sent us to Riley Hospital for an evaluation at the Child Development Center. Cain was diagnosed with "Difficult Temperment Style." He was accepted into Suncrest Developmental Preschool on his 3rd birthday and he's been there ever since. I can't say enough about his teachers. They love him and are so good at what they do! Cain receives his occupational therapy while he's there and he's made a lot of progress. In my gut, I feel like the diagnoses is wrong. I see lots of characteristics of Aspbergers. We're looking into having furthur testing done, so please pray for us and especially for Cain.
He's special to me. Maybe because of his special need, or maybe because I hurt for him when he's having a melt down and people are staring at him. I think to myself, you just don't understand... did you hear that? He said, " Mom, I'm so ANGRY!!!" and I say, "Cain, I'm so proud of you!" Good job!" By then everyone thinks I'm nuts for praising that behavior.... what they don't know is that we've been working on those feeling words for months and he finally used one!
