The Griggs Family
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Technical difficulties, 9 months and much more...
Hello everyone, I'm posting from my iPod touch right now since our computer refuses to turn back on. I ran some updates the other day and it said it needed to restart, but unfortunately never did. I'll be taking it in when I have a chance so until then I won't be able to post pictures.
This past week has been busy. Jack had an appointment with his development pediatrician which went well. He has made some good growth in the past 6 months. He tested in the 30-31 month range for fine motor,cognitive and receptive language skills and 24 months for expressive language skills. He has a lot of work ahead of him which include learning to use language to communicate and helping him learn to socialize. Social skills are difficult for autistic children so we are always looking to help Jack have as many opportunists to be social as we can.
Today is Jack's last day of school before winter break. I'm looking forward to going to his class Christmas party this afternoon.
Peyton has had a big week also. She turned 9 months old on Tuesday. We were scheduled to have her 9 month check up on Thurdsay, but she woke up yesterday morning with a temp of 101.1. We went in and found out she has strep :-(. So we have had to push back her well visit for after Christmas. She will be spending the afternoon with her dad while I go to Jack's party. Justin has figured out his schedule so he can come home to be with her because when she woke up yesterday I was so bummed about having to miss the party. I've been looking forward to this ever since I found out he was going to have a school Christmas party. Thanks honey I really appreciate it :-)
I hope everyone has had a great week and I will hopefully get the computer fixed soon and I'm sorry if there are any typos (blogging on a iPod touch is not the easiest thing to do).
This past week has been busy. Jack had an appointment with his development pediatrician which went well. He has made some good growth in the past 6 months. He tested in the 30-31 month range for fine motor,cognitive and receptive language skills and 24 months for expressive language skills. He has a lot of work ahead of him which include learning to use language to communicate and helping him learn to socialize. Social skills are difficult for autistic children so we are always looking to help Jack have as many opportunists to be social as we can.
Today is Jack's last day of school before winter break. I'm looking forward to going to his class Christmas party this afternoon.
Peyton has had a big week also. She turned 9 months old on Tuesday. We were scheduled to have her 9 month check up on Thurdsay, but she woke up yesterday morning with a temp of 101.1. We went in and found out she has strep :-(. So we have had to push back her well visit for after Christmas. She will be spending the afternoon with her dad while I go to Jack's party. Justin has figured out his schedule so he can come home to be with her because when she woke up yesterday I was so bummed about having to miss the party. I've been looking forward to this ever since I found out he was going to have a school Christmas party. Thanks honey I really appreciate it :-)
I hope everyone has had a great week and I will hopefully get the computer fixed soon and I'm sorry if there are any typos (blogging on a iPod touch is not the easiest thing to do).
Monday, December 5, 2011
Visit with Santa!
We had a great Thanksgiving and now that December has arrived we have been busy decorating the house and shopping. Jack adjusted well to going back to school after being off for a week. He had a rough day first day back, but his teacher said the last three day's of the week went great with no behavior issues. He even did his art project on Friday all by himself. Apparently it was gluing small square pieces of paper onto the letter W.
Jack is doing really well and his love of letters and phonics is leading to him learning to read. A new favorite game is for us to write a word on the magna-doodle and for him to read it. He can read about 10-15 words. If you write a word he isn't sure of he will just erase it and wait for you to write another. This past weekend Justin found him playing with his letter blocks and found that he had spelled out LAWSON, which is the name of his school.
We took the kids to an event this weekend to meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Santa Clause. This was the first year that Jack seemed happy and not afraid of Santa. He sat down next to him and we got a great picture of him with Santa. He is even, sort of, looking at the camera. Justin said that when he was waiting for the picture, Jack ran back over to Santa and wanted him to clap his hands. Peyton on the other hand was terrified of Santa so she did not get her picture taken :-) She was interested in Mickey and Minnie, but only from a safe distance. We got some cute pictures of her infront the tree both there and at home. The cute little outfit was an outfit we borrowed from our friends.
I hope that everyone is having a great December and I will post again soon.
Jack is doing really well and his love of letters and phonics is leading to him learning to read. A new favorite game is for us to write a word on the magna-doodle and for him to read it. He can read about 10-15 words. If you write a word he isn't sure of he will just erase it and wait for you to write another. This past weekend Justin found him playing with his letter blocks and found that he had spelled out LAWSON, which is the name of his school.
We took the kids to an event this weekend to meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Santa Clause. This was the first year that Jack seemed happy and not afraid of Santa. He sat down next to him and we got a great picture of him with Santa. He is even, sort of, looking at the camera. Justin said that when he was waiting for the picture, Jack ran back over to Santa and wanted him to clap his hands. Peyton on the other hand was terrified of Santa so she did not get her picture taken :-) She was interested in Mickey and Minnie, but only from a safe distance. We got some cute pictures of her infront the tree both there and at home. The cute little outfit was an outfit we borrowed from our friends.
I hope that everyone is having a great December and I will post again soon.
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