While waiting for A's occupational therapy to finish, I saw these.

(Above) "Plants taken cared by special children."

That's me reading Temple Grandin's book Animals Makes Us Humans.

Its blue and cute

This is A's school. That door is his classroom. I think the place used to be an old bahay na bato house converted to a small preschool. I think this area was once the ground floor because of the entrance door and the two windows (one of them you can see here) flanking at its side. Now the kids would assemble here before class. They would play here during P.E. fridays.

I'll take picture of the entrance door next. It has a very old but beautiful lock. As well as the window that is part of the owner's house.

Morning routine

A and I have a routine together whenever I am the one who goes with him to his  therapies. After his communication therapy, we'd walk from the school to the nearest mc donald's and have breakfast there, then walk again back to the school for his behavioral therapy class.

Today, he saw this on the sidewalk.

moss

He took this picture himself. He was really fascinated with it.
 

One of the benefits of walking aside from burning extra calories in your body, is you get to see beauty in small things when you take time to look.

On the way home, he would hold up his hand mimicking the action of driving a wheel. 

" I hold onto her hand and vow that I won’t let her freeze to death in that tempting snow drift, so I too, mustn’t go there or we’ll both freeze."

This quote is from Eustacia Cutler, mother of Temple Grandin. This is exactly how I feel as to how I should be as a mother to my son.

"Temple isn’t ‘cured’ of her autism. She is fulfilled – and she’s fulfilled in the way that SHE wants to be fulfilled. THAT is the goal."

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"There are no answers. There are only choices. And making choices takes a kind of persistent courage."

 "The problem with being a parent is that it’s on-the-job training."

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After doing some hand painting, Albert practiced using the scissors. I made some strips of paper with 2-4 inches of lines in them for Albert to cut through. This is similar to what he did on therapy last week.

Mastering the proper holding and use of scissors is a very essential skill to survive in preschool since there's a lot of cutting and pasting activities done in school, plus it helps improve those little hand's fine motor skills for writing.