A Good Week

It's been a good week.  In my last post, I was concerned about Gracie's daycare setting and her being overwhelmed with too many kids in her class.  Well kudos to the teacher and the new assistant teacher.  They are an incredible pair and Gracie is doing really well at daycare.  She is talking more than she ever has in the daycare setting, she has a group of new friends who are ready to help and encourage her, and she initiated climbing up the rock wall at daycare all on her own.  She needed a little help when she got to the top, but she did it!  YAY GRACIE!!!!!  The teachers both understand when she is overwhelmed and have put things into place to help with adjustments there.  I am very pleased.

On Tuesday night we joined the local school board to honor the bus driver, bus paraprofessional, and the district nurse who saved Gracie's life when she had a severe allergic reaction on the school bus.  It was a thrill to see these three individuals honored.  It was also a thrill to meet the bus driver and paraprofessional.  Both are incredibly wonderful people.  We know the school nurse and she is so deserving as well.  She's an incredible person also.  A news crew was there (we had no clue) and did a nice story.  It wasn't 100% accurate, but good enough.  The local newspaper wanted to do an article as well and we were going to grant permission, but they didn't keep promises and showed up at Gracie's daycare unannounced to take her picture with the bus staff.  They didn't get district permission either.  Gracie was upset and once again the bus staff had her best interests at heart and the picture didn't happen.  We decided to cancel the newspaper story.  We really didn't want the news media involved at all, our intent was to honor some very deserving people and that was done. 

The rest of the week was just busy with Jeff working long hours and Gracie and I hanging out.  She is so tired by the end of the day, that we get her fed, get a little play time and then she is ready for bed.

This weekend we had some good play time.  Gracie was really interested in putting wooden puzzles together this weekend.   Jeff and I were amazed at how good she is getting at it and how she had an incredibly long attention span as well.  She's also been playing some fun letter games on her iPad and is starting to learn the letters of the alphabet.  Yesterday I was feeding her some Mott's applesauce in the car.  She pointed to the clear "M" on the container and told me it was an "M".  I was shocked.  Then she pointed to the "O" and told me it was an "O".  She didn't know the "T", but I was pleasantly surprised with the others. 

I'm hoping for another good week.

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie