First Week Of School

I know that other parents are probably used to this but...I just bought $100 worth of mandatory school supplies for my three year old son. How is this possible???



We've been through quite an ordeal with getting Nathan to school. Two months ago when we received confirmation that Nathan would be accepted into Special Pre-K, we had to change daycares. His old daycare wasn't within school district limits so the school bus would not pick him up and the daycare wouldn't drop him off since it serviced Edmond schools. His new daycare drops off at the Deer Creek School district and said Deer Creek picks up there as well. It was a bit of a hassle since the daycare opens later in the morning and I had to hussle to drop off Nathan so I wouldn't be late for work.

Two days before school started, Deer Creek informed us that the daycare was NOT within the school district and they would not pick him up. The daycare does not have a bus that drops off preschoolers. We were stuck. In an incredible move that has still stunned us, the Deer Creek School district changed the entire hours that they do daycare to match the kindergarten kids so that Nathan could ride to school with the kindergarteners. This would have been great except...the daycare won't transport him because he is only three years old.

We were just about to the point where we had to pull Nathan out of preschool which we really didn't want to do because he has his speech therapy. So we pulled him out of daycare instead. At this point we are paying my Mom to keep him in the morning. He catches the bus from her house which, fortunately, is in the Deer Creek School District. I don't know how long this will work and we will likely have to find a babysitter come January if Ron is able to go to day shift. But at least it's working. Ron has to stay up with Nathan instead of sleeping but we are both happy to be able to keep him in PreK.



The good news is that Nathan is really enjoying his PreK. His teachers are really great and I think he is going to learn a lot from the school.
The SoonerStart had diagnosed him as 50% delayed in cognitive ability for his age. Ron and I tried not to laugh because we know that is ridiculous. He stubbornly refused to cooperate with the worker conducting the examination but it definitely wasn't because he couldn't comprehend. It's because he is a stubborn little mule! He's already exceeded many of the goal they set for him this year so they think he is super-smart...which he is!

I hope that he makes great strides in his speech this year. His therapist notes that he always leaves the first and last letters off of his words even if he can pronounce them. That's true.

Nathan stubbornly refused to speak until a few months ago and now he never stops! He is a wear-bear sometimes but we are so glad to hear him chattering on and trying to learn new words. He is still announcing the color and shape of everything everywhere we go.



Today I found Ron teaching Nathan new shapes. Nathan was trying to wrap his tongue around the words Isosceles and Trapezoid. [Insert Mommy rolling her eyes]