Last week of Summer School

One of my past clients has a little boy who is in Andrew's class.  She told me that Monday, when she was picking up Cooper, Andrew came up to her all happy and said, "My mom is coming to get me too!"  It broke my heart to read her message. Daddy comes to get him.. not me. But he is still holding out hope that maybe, just maybe, I will walk through those doors early to get him.

He is doing an amazing job on his bible reading!! When we timed it, he read the entire thing in 4 minutes and 5 seconds, and that is with him fumbling just a couple of times briefly. We are SO proud of him!  Tuesday we both cheered when he finished reading and we startled him which scared him and he started crying and yelling out of genuine fear. We both felt so bad and tried to apologize. It took a while to calm him down and explain that we were just excited - but that we do understand that we scared him. Daddy reminded him how we don't like it when he is loud, especially in the car, so we do understand how he feels. (I'm so thankful we can reason with him!)

The other day he was walking around the house singing, "Sinful Passions! Sinful passions!!"  Its a phrase he picked out of his bible reading.

Wednesday night after the meeting, he practiced the reading from the podium. I expressed concern that so many people are going to want to see him read, that there will be a bunch of people standing in the back school and that might become a distraction to him. That and if anyone laughs or anything - he is extra sensitive thinking he's not doing a good enough job.  Ted took that to heart and decided maybe the front will be better. So the brothers got step stools out for Andrew to try reading from the stage podium, and lowered the microphone to his level but didn't turn it on. All the stools were too short. He did the reading, but he had trouble seeing the words and keeping his place because his own hand blocked his sight. So, daddy is building a tall step for him to stand on.  Andrew LOVED being on the stage and wanted to touch and feel everything. I think he's starting to get excited - and I'm glad that we are introducing him to the podium and stage beforehand so it's not so new. Ted has planned to let him practice with the microphone on at the podium Saturday after service.

Thursday I had a photoshoot so he had to hang out with Annelise for a while. Amanda O'Gorman let Jillian play with Andrew while we focused on Kerrigan who is 9 months old. Before they left, Kerrigan was standing in front of the couch and Annelise was stroking her arm. Andrew came over, "Can I pet her too?" 

Friday was his last day on the summer schedule of Primrose. He will be home for two weeks before starting back full time. 

Ted built a nice step stool for him and took it to the hall Saturday for Andrew to use while practicing with the microphone on. Andrew was really excited at that idea all morning. Ted said he did a great job reading despite a thunderstorm that was literally rattling the building. He did it in 3 minutes and 18 seconds, and he did giggle a few times.  He told me later, "I thought it was cool, and it was."