Trading Places

A has done really well with the move...surprisingly so, in some ways. After the Christmas tree debacle, wherein he freaked for about a week after we rearranged ONE piece of furniture in the living room to put up the aforementioned holiday decoration, we were preparing for the absolute worst. There have been a few tantrums and some shoving, up until a couple of days ago. Overall, though, the move has been better than we could have hoped.

I think he figured out that this is his new house from hearing us talk about it (he really is a smart kid, he just can't talk much), and the fact that we moved his own bed over here the first night we slept here. His language skills haven't been severely disrupted as of yet, but he did attend his old school through Friday the 7th, so we'll see how things go between now and when he starts at his new school sometime in April.

Because he has special education requirements, we have to go through an IEP meeting in the new county, even though we just had one two weeks ago at his old school, and jump through some other hoops before he's actually enrolled. Spring Break is next week, starting Weds, and runs through the first half of the following week, so the administration didn't want him to go for two days, be off for a week, then attend for two days, then have a weekend....they want him to just start out like it's a "normal" week (as an aside, do those actually exist? I'm not so sure) to help him adjust to the new school as easily as possible. So the administration has also delayed our meetings to get the ball rolling until April....so hopefully by mid-month he'll be back in school.

We have not changed his OT or his ABA therapist, so there is something familiar a few days a week, at least. Due to increasing gas prices, Z has made noises about changing his OT to someone that's closer to us. I'm hoping to arrange the schedule so he goes to both on the same day, instead of driving for an hour back several times a week (they're on different days right now). We are keeping his ABA therapist regardless, they are very hard to get into in this area and always keep long waiting lists.

So, all in all, trading one place for another hasn't been nearly as difficult for our son as we had anticipated. Thank God.