Sorry, Buddy.

We had a very OT sorta day.  Peter had OT through HCPS early this morning.  Then he had an OT eval at Children's later this morning.  His OT eval at CH really encouraged me.  It was with the therapist he saw all last year.  I was able to see good progress in his skills since his previous evals.... even since his first informal eval by an OT friend at church 1.5 years ago.  Its a similar standardized test... so it really encouraged me to see his progress in skills.  I hate to sound like a worry wart but since we really don't know for sure what we are dealing with (the cause of his epilepsy and low tone) and there were some crazy things included in his work up, and still unknowns, its just so relieving to see good, normal progress.  He will still receive therapy this year, spaced out over the year to spread out our insurance benefits.  The therapist was reassuring me that many of the levels he's at are developmentally appropriate and that often nowadays schools push kids beyond what is appropriate for where their brains are at each age.  And it was good to spend the time with just him... some quality time with my littlest man that we don't often get.

I bought him a 'paint with water' Curious George recently so this afternoon he worked on it.  He LOVED doing them.  It really kept his attention (that's always encouraging!).  He did one after another!  

Yes, I know his grip isn't right in a lot of these, we did correct that.  ;)

I think he did 7 total!  The harder you've had to work at something, the sweeter the victory!

 I also bought him a book of mazes.  We worked on those together then he was doing them on his own and really into them.  He'd pretend the characters in each maze... help the boy in the bath find his duckie, help the birdie out of the chimney, etc.   He tried and tried the "turtle" maze in the pic below, then gave up and said to the turtle, "I'm sorry buddy. I just can't help ya!" Love that boy.  He keeps me laughing!

It makes me happy too that he is wearing his crown from SS yesterday...  

In Preschool Quest, they learned that Jesus is Prophet (takes a message from God to man), Priest (makes sacrifices to God on behalf of man) and King (dwells among men, rules over us, the world and satan).  His crown has this verse on it... 

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Revelation 21:3-4