Noah's daddy was admitted to the hospital on Nov. 29th. He has an autoimmune disease, and he let things get a little out of hand. He was able to come home on Dec. 6th, which was also Noah's 4th birthday.
Noah finally turns 4!!
Unfortunately, our neighbor's house caught fire and burned down on the same day. Luckily, she was at work and her beloved dog made it out fine. Unfortunately, her three beloved cats did not. So we did not have much of a birthday celebration. Noah opened his presents and took a treat to school for his friends, but other than that it was pretty much a blah kind of day.
Now that he is 4, Noah thinks he is a big boy and we have taken full advantage of the situation to really push the potty training issue. It's still hit and miss, but it is slowly improving.
He got his Wii!
Unfortunately, he's having some trouble figuring it out and hasn't touched it much since he opened it!
Unfortunately, he's having some trouble figuring it out and hasn't touched it much since he opened it!
Our town also suffered a real tragedy on December 9th. I live in a fairly small town with a population of about 13,000. Everyone either knows or knows of everyone else. An acquaintance that I graduated from hight school with lost 3 of her children in a house fire. Our whole community was really rocked by the loss of three little ones. They were only 7, 6, and 3 years old. Today was the funeral and the whole community is still in mourning.
Today was also Noah's last day of school until after the holidays and they had the Christmas party and program. This was really fun. Noah had a really good time. He actually participated in the program. This was no easy accomplishment. After the program was finished his aide let me know how close Noah came to sitting out in the hall during the program. Apparently he was having some problems during the rehearsal earlier. Thankfully, he worked through his sensory stuff with his aide and was able to participate. Here's a little video. Sorry about the quality, but my camera isn't the greatest when you zoom in.
He really had fun. And did I mention how much I love his aide this year? She is great with him!
After the program we went back to the classroom to do a craft and see a special visitor. Noah is finally "getting" the whole Santa thing this year.
He even sat on Santa's lap and told him what he wanted for Christmas. I can't believe how much he has grown over the last year.
Noah also had his annual IEP while Dave was in the hospital, but that's a whole other post!
