Logey's School Year so Far..

A week after Aidan, Logey Joe began his new school year.

He loves his school

He has only had one “full” year of it but

has been with the same teacher twice.

His first school year was only 6 weeks

long due to when he turned 3

and

the school year ended.

Just those short 6 weeks he made dramatic changes

for the better.

He was blessed to have a wonderful teacher

and

supremely wonderful assistants also.

After a full year, he was one of the better students

in class

and
 he was at the bridge of

needing more challenge.

So, for this school year
he has moved from
 the supremely structured

Autism only class

to

the Developmentally Delayed class.

So this is where this school year has began.

The first day he was not happy

about the change in routine.

Just as unhappy as he was over the first month or so of

summer due to the change of no school.

Funny, huh?

We tried to get some at home photos

but the poor child due to being told

he was going to school

started melting down.

We took the photo's anyways.

I mean it does capture what is the moment.

We knew he would be happy eventually

and

he prefers to “know” what will happen.

(ie: school classroom daily routine)

He happily walked to class.

We told him he would be in a new class.

He smiled and said, “Hi!”

to his teachers from last year.

His new class is directly across the hall from them.

They are some amazing women.

They saw him and exclaimed how much

he has grown.

They smile with their entire face

when they see their students.

He walked right into the new class

and

seemed OK.

(He had already been there at Open House night.)
He looked around

and

then started to panic about me leaving him.

Now, it was Andrew, Daniel and I there.

He insisted on holding my hand

and

yelling for me.

His (yet another) wonderful new teacher

let us sit with him for a bit

and

then we came to the

“ripping of the band aid”
time.

She took him and he screamed..

He screamed his wonderful (that is sarcasm there) words

The fit he evolved to this summer.

“I NEEEEEED HELLLLLLLP!!!”

Yes, so we left.

We could still hear him as we

turned into the next hall way.

Yes, he was easily heard over the chaos noise of the

first day of school of parents,

students, teachers.

They said he did pretty good.

A few weeks into this year he loves it.

On days when he is not at school

he will beg to go.

Just the other week I emailed his teacher's

a photo of him wearing his backpack

on a day off.

He had just finished with his In-Home Speech Pathologist

and

made a show for a student that was observing the session.

He started to yell, “I see Cinda!!' At first we all thought he said, “Anna.”
Then he began attacking our coat closet with

panic.

Which that is where we store the backpacks.

I realized he was saying, Cinda.

So..

for the next six hours he screamed

about school,

Miss Cinda and Mr. P

AND

wore the backpack the entire time.

I prepared myself that he would probably go to bed with

it on.

THANKFULLY, he took it off at bed time.

So, yes, from 1:30 pm

until 7:30pm he wore a back pack.

So, he loves it. They say he does really well during Circle

time

and

he actually helps motivate the other Children.

Our Little Logey Joe

is such an amazing little man.

He may test us quite a bit

but always

amazes us for all he can do.

He is an inspiring little man.

We got a call from Duke the other week too.

Mid-November we get to meet back up

with his Geneticist.

One of the best around

and

shall see if anything from

his supremely detailed genetics tests

offers any help or insight

towards his metabolic issues that have

kept us on our toes

and

she has almost mentioned

the possibility of finding

some things that

may help us find other ways to lessen

his difficulties.
And

from the beginning
she mentioned

a good chance of yet another visit with

yet another specialist.

It is not easy

it can really put a huge dent on your budget

but if it helps our child

to function at his best

then we will do the needed things

to help this Gift we were given.

The "order" of how the morning went, minus the last two photos
which I was pretty sure I changed their order..but alas..it seems I did not..or the
computer decided it did not like what I did?

The other Thursday..the beginning of the 6 hours of wearing his backpack