Big updates, sorry, I've been slacking!

OK, updates for Miss Brookie. She is LOVING school and doing awesome at school, ZERO behavior or academic issues. She's really thriving on the routine and structure of school. Downside, her teacher is not so great. The one time I tried to talk to her about Brooklyn's skill levels she brushed me off. Her only response was that the math Brooklyn is doing at home is much too hard for a 5 year old. Um really? Then how come she  can get the answers correct? It's not like she's doing multi digit multiplication. She's just doing double digit addition to 99 and subtraction from 19.

Because she's not having any issues with school (behavior or academic) our hands are kinda tied. She wouldn't qualify for an IEP or 504 plan which would be the only way for us to force the teacher into giving her harder course work. Our other options are to keep doing more complicated work with her at home and try to get her evaluated for being moved up to 1st grade, or to to keep doing more complicated work at home and wait for her to get bored and have issues at school.

Updates about Alayna! OK, so LOTS of appointments coming up. Physical therapy evaluation today, occupational therapy evaluation on October 4th, followed by an IEP meeting that same afternoon. Casey Eye Institute eye check on October 15th, and an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon at Shriner's Hospital on October 25th. This makes for a VERY busy family. All that doesn't include all of Brooklyn's appointments (weekly behavior modification and HOPFULLY soon bi-weekly OT).

Alayna is doing OK in school. She's made some friends, a few who live in the same apartment complex as us. She's struggling a bit with the homework. She often needs help with the spelling assignments as they are multiple steps and she gets lost after 1-2 steps. She has struggled with double digit multiplication, I'm not sure she learned it last year as she had no idea how to do it and I had to teach her this year. Her teacher is REALLY awesome. She's been great every time I've had to speak with her about how Alayna was doing in class. She's going to attend the IEP meeting, so it'll be nice to get her take on how Alayna is progressing.

Alayna is joining the "friendship" club at school. I think it should help as she really struggles with friends. She's just not at the same level as kids in her peer group (2 years behind her age group) and it causes issues with maintaining friendships.

So, those are the updates for now. I will update again once we know anything from any of the many appointments.