Update on Evan

Well, Evan had his IEP on Friday October 19, 2007 and it went a lot better than I was expecting. Of course once he starts school we will see how it goes. Anyway, he will be starting school on October 30th at a special education preschool that is a communication based program. His class will have no more than 12 kids in attendance. He will get group speech therapy and OT, as well as individualized services as well. He is going to get a adaptive PE evaluation which hopefully, they will recommend that he still gets Physical therapy as well. Another big concern is feeding therapy. I am hopeful that the speech therapist knows enough to work on that but if not then we can contract out with our past feeding therapist. Basically it is a wait and see game right now, I have to wait and see how things go at the school and with the therapists and then if it is not to my liking and Evan's benefit then I will have to do what I can do to get it changed. I will post pics of Evan's first day of school soon. I am so excited for him to start school I think he will do very well.

Happy Birthday Evan

Evan had fun playing in the playhouse outside

Evan and Mia are buddies, here they are sitting on Evan's new Thomas the Tank Engine couch that Grandma Barbara and Grandpa Steve got him.

Auntie Donna got Evan this cool horse and he sat on it right away and pretended he was riding it. He thought it was so cool
Check out Evan in this last picture. He is trying to blow out his candles but he does not have the skills to actually blow, he has a hard time getting his lips together in the right position. Anyway, I think it is so cute how he tries to blow his candles out. He does the same thing when we are blowing on hot food.

The Boys

Here are some pics we took at Picture People in June. I bought Gabriel and Evan these jerseys just so we could take a picture in them. These pictures really show their personalities.


Our friends Nicholas and Connor Kiesel got these cool ride on toys, Gabriel and Evan had fun trying out the motorcycle

Evan's Transistion Meeting

Some fun pics of the boys

We finally have a date for Evan's transistion meeting, Thursday September 27, 2007. I am happy to finally have this happen. Those of you outside of this special needs world may not know what this is so I will explain how the system works.

Special needs children are serviced by the Sacramento County office of Education Infant development program from birth to age three. After three everything is transferred to the school district. So first you have a transistion meeting to talk about what will happen with therapy, preschool etc. once the child turns three. The next and most important meeting is the IEP(individual education program) which is where everything is written down and the parents and school district agree to and sign. (and hopefully the district follows through).

Evan is going to be enrolled in a special ed communication based preschool which is what he needs. All of these meetings need to be done by the time the child is 3yrs old. Evan will be 3 in 5 weeks so I am anxious to get everything in order, so he can start preschool.

I will keep you posted as to how these meetings go.

Build a Bear Workshop

So after Mia's party, Rudy, Evan and I headed to Arden Fair Mall just to look around. Gabriel had decided to stay the night with his cousins and Cynthia was with her mom. We decided to let Evan do a build a bear because he had never done it and he is at a good age to do one. We were hoping to find a horse but decided to choose a puppy. Evan had fun with it. We did not pick clothes and just did the simple version. Evan stepped on the pedal that controls the stuffing put into the puppy, he also got to give his puppy a bath. It was fun to do this special non therapy or cerebral palsy related outing with Evan.

Mia's Birthday Party

Look at that Bananna Split

The cousins- Mia, Kennedy, Gabe and Parker

My niece Mia turned 5yrs old on September 16th and her Birthday party was at Leatherby's. I ordered Gabriel a kids size bananna split, which was really big. He shared with his Uncle Morgan. Everyone had a great time.

Camping in Downieville

We were right by a river stream and the kids had fun in the water. Evan loved it.
Evan Eating some pancakes

We went camping in Downieville with Rudy's side of the family over labor day weekend. We had a lot of fun. We were right by the river and stayed in a cabin, it was really fun to get away from the daily wind and grind of school, housecleaning, therapy etc. Gabriel did not go with us because he went with Grandma and Grandpa Bon camping with his cousin Nathan. Cynthia and Evan loved the water. Evan hung out in the wagon for most of Sunday evening. We all decided we want to go back again maybe for 4 nights instead of three.