Eli's School

Eli started school on August 11th, 2008. He goes to Shayne elementary. He is in their Communication, Behavioral Intervention Program (CBIP- Pre-K). He goes monday-Friday from 8-2p.m. We don't see him much. His bus ride was an hour in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon. Now that we've moved it has switched around to 2 hours in the morning and 35 min. in the afternoon. So much for trying to cut down on his bus time. He loves it though. On his days off he will find his backpack and bring it to me, trying to get me to take him to school. Are we not exciting? He has to wear a uniform everyday which at first I didn't like but it is really easy to figure out what he has to wear.

His teacher is Miss Carrie. She is amazing. She is always so positive and when I went to his parent-teacher conference she couldn't stop praising him. Eli does well with structure but has a very difficult time with change. She said that he likes to be the line leader (stand in front when they go to the gym). He likes to be the first on the bus and he loves the vice Principal, Mr. Peoples. She even said that Mr. Peoples will come to their classroom almost every afternoon to help Eli to the bus. Cute! He has been sick a lot lately and has had more fits, so hopefully we can get him back to school and back to learning.

He loves his bus driver Terry and I can't think of the bus monitors name but he just runs to the bus and probably would live there if they'd let him. The first time he got on I started to cry because he looked so tiny going to school.

We dropped him off on the first day. It took us over 45 minutes to find a parking space and to unload the troops. We were late! Doesn't he look handsome?!? One day he was home sick and he put his hand on his chest and said, "I sick." It was so clear that it confused me and almost made me pass out. He also like to walk around saying, "How you doin?" I guess we have a Joey Triviani on our hands (for those who don't know, Joey is on the show "Friends"). I would love to hear more words. That would be great. We're trying and we are even looking into Neuro Modulation Technique which has a lot to do with Chiropractic work. We hope to find something that really will work to help him. Keep him in your prayers.