Henry has had a couple more "rough" days and then yesterday a really good day. I think it's just that whenever we're forcing him to go outside his comfort zone there is both the opportunity for him to really step up, and also the opportunity for him to say "hey, I've had enough."

He's been more "stimmy" lately- wants to carry around the Lady and the Tramp DVD box constantly, along with 2 Lady and the Tramp books and a picture of Lady and the Tramp that he and his teacher drew together. And most conversations center around the things featured on the DVD cover. I mean even the bread sticks and the table cloth...

He kicked another kid in the face on Tuesday. (Some people have questioned how that is physically possible and I'm not really sure without witnessing it.) He also needed more help than usual on his math worksheet that day. His teacher said she doesn't think we need to worry about it too much. "The student was being pretty noisy when the kick happened & Henry is especially irritated by this person's loud voice." That kind of makes me smile. Aren't there some loud people who irritate you? Wouldn't you like to kick them in the face?

Ms. H sent home some new goals which include:

-Take at least 3 turns with a peer
-Stay on topic during a conversation
-When another student is being redirected*, H will refrain from calling out about student.

*Redirected. I love these kinds of words. This is a nicer way to say that another child is being scolded or reprimanded. I will have to remember redirected. It's like when the psychologist testing Henry mentioned his noncompliance. That made me laugh out loud at the time. (I have a strange sense of humor.)

Henry just started the art inclusion, but they also decided to add inclusion when the kindergartners have library. So Henry had his first library inclusion yesterday and it went really well! I don't have the teacher's note here to quote, but she said he sat quietly and followed directions, etc. And she specifically named a couple kids who seemed interested in Henry and talked to him a lot! Eeek! Yes, I almost started crying when I read that.

Oh, another odd thing: after Henry came home from my parents' house, he laid around and said his tummy felt sick for the rest of the afternoon. I finally put him to bed at 7! But he didn't fall asleep- I could hear him up there talking to himself (and not sounding sick). When I checked on him around 8, he said he was hungry (I had been asking him all afternoon.) So he got up and ate 2 big bowls of cereal and 6 slices of bacon! Ever since he has seemed fine. I'm not sure if that was some kind of transition issue between Grandma's house and home? My mom suggested that maybe he ate too many sweets at their house, but the kid has a pretty good sweet tolerance, so I don't think that was it.

I finally have a few more pictures to share. Most of this roll was heavy on Tommy pictures, from his birthday and moving into the big boy bed. But I did get some of Henry during his swimming lesson on Monday: