The boys start school tomorrow-- They are all excited but Brody might be a bit shy. I (Bill) took the boys to their open house last night-- the boys all met their teachers and got their desks. Brody was acting a little bit scared. I think he will be ok since Lucy (his next door neighbor and best friend) will be with him tomorrow and the teacher is going to let them sit next to each other.
The boys are all going to Whitehouse primary. Whitehouse does full day kindergarten but splits it up so the kids go every other day, Lucy is going to do this but Brody is going to go every day as we and his principal feel he would benefit from the extra kindergarten time.
Brody is still suffering from some neuromyopathy as a result of his chemo- in a nutshell it is nerve damage that starts at his extremities and works its way up-- we mentioned it with his left leg previously but it also has caused some hand co-ordination issues and it makes it difficult to hold a pencil and crayons he can do it but it is somewhat difficult for him to write neatly-- he has come a long way but we and his Principal think he would benefit from the extra time working through it, neuromyopathy induced by chemo is reversible but it just takes a while and generally works back down to the extremities... our only concern was Brody feeling ostracized for having to go to kindergarten every day. It is not uncommon though(there is another boy in Brody's class doing this and there was a boy in Geordi's kindergarten class that did this)... Brody is also continuing his speech therapy through the school district while he is at school and so he won't miss anything by going to his speech class. We will miss spending some one on one time with Brody-- seems like they boys all have to share mom and dad most of the time....
Not much else going on with us....
More later...
Bill
All the boys look great. Tell Brody that his Aunt Theresa had to go to speech therapy too.
ReplyDeleteI kept slipping my s's.
Also tell him that one of his Daddy's high school teachers recomended his dad learn to type because his hand-writing was terrible.
Mine is not so great either. Must be a sign of intelegence.
Love to all
Theresa and Family
I'm 30 and I could probably use some speech therapy... honestly sometimes I mash words together especially when saying "good bye" on the phone I'll say something "goo'later" or "cya'bye"
ReplyDeleteThat's why I <3 emails and spell checker! 80% of the time I appear much smarter then I really am, 100% of the time!