Preschool prep

We met with Kenton County School Board this week to discuss Gabe's options for preschool and the transition from First Steps into the school system. In KY, you can start preschool when you turn 3 if you have special needs or are on a food program. We are very fortunate that the public preschool for our neighborhood has a good reputation. Gabe also has the option to stay at Redwood for preschool. We think we would like him to go to public preschool as it will prepare him a little better for kindergarden and be a different feel from just a daycare setting. He will be pushed and it will be good for him. He would attend at afterschool program at Redwood. The IEP process is overwhelming. Gabe riding the bus is overwhelming. The next step is for us to tour the school in March. The good news is they have a nurse there and a teacher and 2 aids in the classroom for 20 students. Hopefully Gabe won't have his gtube then. He is still preferring to take little sips initiated by us instead of big gulps initiated by him. Hopefully Gabe will be walking independently by then. He could walk...he just chooses not to right now. I think it's too much effort at this point and he is just stubborn. Anyway, alot can happen between now and August, so we'll see how it goes.

Alyssa is doing well. She is finally sleeping for longer stretches at night. She's consistently going to bed around 9:30pm, waking up to eat at 2:30am then going back to sleep till 6:30am. Sometimes it is difficult to get her to fall back asleep after the 2:30am feeding, but overall, this is a huge improvement. What was the trick you ask?....sleeping in the bouncer. We'll worry about that later. Gabe loves Alyssa. He is into everything she is doing and wants to "help". Today I was feeding her a bottle and he scooted over to me on his butt and gave me a burp cloth...such a smart boy.

I go back to work in a week. I'm having mixed feelings....