School Friends
I think I mentioned that in the last week or two, a little blonde boy in Maria’s class shouted, “Maria’s here!!”, when we got to school. Of course Samantha is always happy to see Maria, petting her and hugging her, and Maria smiles in response–it’s so cute! But yesterday, when I dropped Maria off at school, it was the best yet. I rolled Maria through the gate and was signing her in, when a cute little girl in her class said, “Yea, Maria’s here!!” very excitedly; then she ran out to the playground and yelled, “Hey, Maria’s here!”, and Samantha, the little blonde boy, and about 4 or 5 other kids all came running over to Maria, surrounding her stroller, touching her and petting her. Maria got quite a kick out of it. I almost cried. It was probably about the sweetest, cutest thing I’ve ever seen. If only I’d had my camera. I’m glad Maria’s in school, at least she’s getting some socialization out of it, and experience with little people her size.
Today was Maria’s first hippotherapy at her new time, Friday morning at 9:30am. She did great! Sat up straight most of the session, Marcia said she was smiling a lot. In fact, I told Maria where we were going and she was smiling a lot in the car–I think she understood what I was saying. We only have a few more sessions before it’ll be too hot, but so far the weather’s been cooperating. When we got home, Maria slept for more than 4 hours so I got a lot of work done, and she had no problem getting to sleep tonight.
We were supposed to meet a new speech therapist, but when she was about 4 houses from us, she got a call from her fiance that the dog had gotten out of the yard, got hit by a car, and had to be put to sleep; so she was going to have to go home and tell her 9-yr old daughter. Poor thing, she was so upset. We’ll try again next week.