Monday, November 14, 2011
Therapy Dogs
Katie's school brings in therapy dogs once a week to work with the kids in her special education class. Katie has never been a big fan of dogs (or any animal, live or stuffed, for that matter), but she is starting to warm up to the therapy dogs. Her teacher sent me this pic of her petting one of the dogs last week, and she said that Katie likes pushing one of the little dogs down the hall in a stroller. I'd love to have a picture of that! As a dog lover, I just love this program!
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Fall Pics
Katie has been taking hippotherapy on Saturday afternoons again this fall. These pics were taken on a beautiful, sunny fall afternoon a couple of weeks ago. Hard to believe Katie has been riding now for 7 years! She still loves it!!
That Sunday, we went to Bonnybrook Farm. It's only open to the public on weekends in October, so we wanted to be sure to get there while the weather was nice. It's such a beautiful place, and the fall colors were gorgeous that weekend!
That Sunday, we went to Bonnybrook Farm. It's only open to the public on weekends in October, so we wanted to be sure to get there while the weather was nice. It's such a beautiful place, and the fall colors were gorgeous that weekend!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Third Grader
Katie started back to school this week. Hard to believe my girl is in third grade! Overall, she had a good first week. She was a little hesitant about going to school on Monday, and even seemed a little subdued in the car on the way to school a couple other days, but she did great once she got there.
She has the same interpreter and one-on-one aide as last year. She has a new special ed interventionist, but luckily it is a woman who used to teach at the Early Childhood Center that Katie attended, so she knows Katie and has even worked with her before. Katie has a new regular ed teacher, but the same OT, PT, and speech therapists as last year. It makes it so much easier when you have a lot of the same team members as the previous year. Already dreading the switch to a new school with the start of fourth grade next year--but we won't think about that yet!
You'd think after five full days of school, Katie would be exhausted tonight, but it's 11:00 p.m. and she's still going strong! Wish I had half her energy!
She has the same interpreter and one-on-one aide as last year. She has a new special ed interventionist, but luckily it is a woman who used to teach at the Early Childhood Center that Katie attended, so she knows Katie and has even worked with her before. Katie has a new regular ed teacher, but the same OT, PT, and speech therapists as last year. It makes it so much easier when you have a lot of the same team members as the previous year. Already dreading the switch to a new school with the start of fourth grade next year--but we won't think about that yet!
You'd think after five full days of school, Katie would be exhausted tonight, but it's 11:00 p.m. and she's still going strong! Wish I had half her energy!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Indiana State Fair
Katie starts back to school on Monday, the 22nd, so we decided to take a family day this week before school starts and go the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. What a nice fair! Katie really enjoyed herself, especially in the livestock barns since she has a love of farm animals right now. We saw cows, horses, sheep, and pigs galore! And food galore, too! Katie loved the fresh-cut fries.
We only stayed a couple hours--usually much longer in a place like this, and Katie will start getting overstimulated, so we've learned to limit our time, which makes for a better day for all of us. We would definitely go back to this fair--it was great!
Many of you have probably heard that there was a terrible accident at this fair last weekend, when a huge gust of wind preceding a thunderstorm caused a concert stage to collapse, killing five people and injuring dozens of others. This last picture shows the memorial they had set up for the victims of this freak and tragic event.
We only stayed a couple hours--usually much longer in a place like this, and Katie will start getting overstimulated, so we've learned to limit our time, which makes for a better day for all of us. We would definitely go back to this fair--it was great!
Many of you have probably heard that there was a terrible accident at this fair last weekend, when a huge gust of wind preceding a thunderstorm caused a concert stage to collapse, killing five people and injuring dozens of others. This last picture shows the memorial they had set up for the victims of this freak and tragic event.
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