First Day of School

Well, it's been a long time since I, Jay, have taken the initiative to post on our family blog. Tonight I decided that I would share our new family reality with you.
Today was Andrew's first day in a real school, the local elementary school. While thankfully they have not decided to move up the age at which you must begin school, allow me to share how this event transpired.
On Friday Andrew went for a speech evaluation where a diagnostician was present. It was the consensus of the group that there was something more than just speech that was wrong with him. They felt it was probably a sign of autism. Not wanting to immediately make that call, they asked us to enroll him in a 30 day evaluation of him in their special education program that deals mostly with autistic children. This has been quite the shocker for us. While we've been preparing ourselves for this, the reality still weighs heavy. Many emotions have been swirling around the house for days. No time for all that now...
So, here we are. Andrew is in big boy school, luckily for just 3 hours a day. They have mercy on the 3 year old. We will of course keep you up to date on all of this. Sorry for no first day pictures. We woke up late ;)

Swimming Table?

This morning Andrew wanted to go outside and play in the "wawer", so we did. He has a water table that Nana bought him for his birthday so I put water in it and he played normally for awhile and then moved on to the sand box. I had to start lunch so I left him out there for a minute. I can see the back porch from the kitchen, but Andrew has never been too adventurous anyway, so I knew he would be fine just playing. I peeked out the window at one point and saw what I thought was his foot in the water table and thought, "what in the world is he doing?" Well, it wasn't just his foot, it was his whole body!!

He's never done this before, but I guess he wanted to go swimming! I'm not even sure how he got in there!!! The table isn't the sturdiest thing in the world so I would have figured it would have toppled over as he was trying to get in. But I guess for a three year old, where there's a will, there's a way. He stayed in there for about 30 minutes and was just as content as could be. Finding things like this is one of my favorite things about parenting.

Fun with the camera

Every Thursday night Andrew and I have to find some way to entertain ourselves since Daddy is gone playing basketball. Last night we decided to have some fun with the camera. This may sound ironic, especially considering the directory picture incident, but Andrew loves to have his picture taken. If we're not in a studio he really hams it up. Last night was no exception.





On a side note, we may be gaining some ground in the potty training arena. I thought this day would never come. Before yesterday when I would ask Andrew if he wanted to tee tee in the potty he would say "otay, otay, otay". Which when translated means, "leave me alone!" But I asked him the same question last night and he actually showed some interest. He stood there and kept saying "tee tee in potty", so I tried to show him what to do. Of course Jay wasn't home so he didn't get to see exactly how it's done. However, when he did get home, Jay asked Andrew if he wanted to go and he was all excited again. So they went in and Andrew tried again. Of course he hasn't actually gone tee tee yet (Andrew, not Jay), but we're so excited that he's showing interst.