School's in!

Many of you have been checking our blog, and, unfortunately, we haven't been doing our part in keeping it updated. We apologize for this. Life goes on, and, unfortunately, blogging is not at the top of the priority list.

Dawson continues to love school. He has five excellent EA's this year, and has started attending his grade 1 classroom. His classroom teacher explained at our meeting last week, that whenever Dawson joins the classroom, they stop what they're doing and begin singing. She has quickly learned how to connect with him. Of course, he loves this! He is so blessed!

He is now in school for full days, so he can join in the afternoon activities. They do incredibly fun stuff! The Special Ed students go horsebackriding one afternoon a week, go shopping, tour places, etc. They always have something fun, yet educational or therapeutic, planned for every afternoon. Dawson responds excellent to horses. His language fluorishes when he's on a horse. Full sentences come out when he's riding (we think they're not echolalia, but not sure). None the less, he sits on the horse for about 20 minutes completely engaged.

As a prayer request, we ask you to pray for him next week Wednesday. He will be consciously sedated to allow the Pediatric Opthamologist to take a decent look at his eyes. As you probably recall, Dawson has ROP (Retinopathy of Prematurity) which basically means that his retina can detach at any moment. If this happened, he would likely become blind unless we caught it within a few hours. Knowing him, he's not the type to say: "Hey mom, my eye's blurry!"

At our quarterly appointments, it's an enormous challenge to be successful in determining the state of his retina (and his prescription). Therefore, sedation is necessary. Our greatest concern is that he cannot eat or drink from 6:30am that day till 11:30 am. Anyone who knows Dawson well knows this will be a huge challenge! Please pray for Dawson to not feel hungry or thirsty that morning, and for patience and distraction opportunities for us!

Thank you for your prayers regarding this and your interest in our lives! God bless!