Kids

Monday at the special needs school, we were in the hallway when a line of kids came through. One kid screamed out as they came in then started hitting himself in the head! Poor thing! The teacher talked and calmed him and put a blue helmet on him like Jade wears. He was older, 8 maybe. I just made me think, our kids may fall from seizures and get bloodied or bruised, but how grateful I am that I'm not having to protect her from herself! That would be so hard to cope with. The older he gets the more he can hurt himself too! Plus I seriously doubt they could even medicate him for something like that, it would just basically be sedation. So sad! I'm sure his mother goes in there and sees other kids that make her grateful for her child's problems.
There was another boy, even older who saw Naomi on the tricycle. Then he saw Naomi decide she didn't want to be on the tricycle and scoot her butt off the seat, not taking in her feet were attached by Velcro to the peddles! So she was really in a deep squat off to the side of the trike. He got the biggest smile on his face! I said "do you think that's funny?" and he started laughing! It was so sweet!
Today in therapy Naomi was in the "sling swing". It's kind of made out of fabric like a swimming suit and it's just like a giant sling and she gets in there and is cuddled. Her speech therapist was watching her and kept looking at me saying she's so sweet! Then she said "you've to to see her sweet little face!". Her expression was so funny, she was calm and had just the slightest smile on her face like she was perfectly content! She was so glad to be back!