School

So Kellen started school this week. He goes two days a week, for an hour and fifteen minutes. To give you a little bit of an idea about the program, It's for kids from 18 months to 3 years old. Most of which have a speech delay, or anything developmental, or physical. The Teachers are actually BYU students learning to be Speech Therapists or Developmental Therapists, with one head teacher that has been there done that. Kellen has a Speech, Developmental, & Occupational Therapist that all come to the house a few times a month, and then he gets more interaction twice a week in his class. They have an observation booth, so I can watch Kellen play. And let me tell you, there is nothing more hilarious then watching these teachers chase after Kellen. He sends the trucks down the slide, throws blocks in the water table (sensory table was water this week) Pulls everything off the walls, pours his juice on the table, twice... within a minute of each other. Dumps out buckets of toys, then runs off and dumps out a different bucket of toys, all the while laughing his little guts out. When it's time to sit, he plays this elaborate catch me if you can, with 2-3 teachers, when they do finally get him, he tries to do this army crawl and grunt to get away, and some times he does and the game starts all over again. Preston says I make handling Kellen look easy, but when others give it a go, you can see how hi maintenance he is. 

The Toddler Program only goes through July, But then he will start Pre-School. Because Kellen's birth day is in September he misses the cut off line. So he will actually get 2 years of Pre-School. He will start a special transitional Pre-School, and then next year he will start for real (same school same teachers). He will be the oldest in his class, but hopefully with the extra year and with all the teachers being familiar with him, he might be able to handle himself in appropriate manner while in class, and be able to sit when asked. Because right now, sitting is next to imposable, I am a little worried about him moving out of primary next year, but we will cross the bridge when we get there. 

Another good thing, because Kellen is in school and I don't have to stay and watch him, I am able to go do other things, by my self. So I take one day and stay and watch kellen to see how he does, and the other day I go up to the Temple. One of the many blessing of living in Rexburg, the Temple is laterally 2 minutes away from where Kellen is. I don't have very much time, but it's more then what I had before. 

Kellen is starting to talk a little though. He says NO all the time, and GO, OK, SIT, "oh wow, whats that?", or just "what's that?", or just "oh wow". But you have to remember when he does say these words, thy are breathing like a whisper, and he says then multiple times, ie: go go go go  OR ok ok ok ok ok. When he says "oh wow, what's that?" he says it like it all one word. But non the less I am proud of him. And he's up to about 20 signs now. So yeah that's about it, we are all doing really well. We love and miss all you guys.