6/9/11

Last day of School




Noel has had a great ending to the school year, I was a little scared and nervous on how it would all work out with the drive and how she would interact with other children besides her sisters, but she did AWESOME. I'm so proud of her, she lights up at this school she is happy, and the teachers, aids and everyone I've come across there so far seems to have a real passion for their jobs. Its hard for me to have one child that has a disability but for a teacher that is able to have the patience and dedicates their life to this, I give the utmost respect.

So in the above pictures, you see Noel dressed before we go to school, I just love the dress she has on , it was a hot and steamy day about 95 degrees and she was outside participating in Turkey Day where the whole school does things like Field Day at a regular school, some of the blind kids also did archery.... IMAGINE THAT......Noel brought me home a t-shirt with her hand and foot prints very cute. I never got her hand or foot prints when she and her sisters were in the hospital because they were all too critical and that was not a priority, but at least I have hers now.

The next picture is Noel's teacher Ms. Bowman I'm pretty sure I have spoken of her before here, she has been Noel's Insite teacher that has been coming out to our house for the past two years, and she is also Noel's pre-school teacher so I felt really good about sending her to school, Noel loves Ms. Bowman and I knew she would be comfortable with her. As you can see Noel is feeling Braille with Ms. Bowman she loves the feeling of Braille.

The 3rd picture is of Noel at gym time with another child from the school, Noel loves to rock back and forth so the swing is defiantly a treat for her. We don't have any parks or anything like that close to us, nor do we have a vehicle large enough to transport the whole family out so we don't get out much, but look how much she enjoyed the swing. : )

So today is the last day of school for her for the year she will start back in August, she will have Ms. Bowman again and go again for another full year of pre-school. Everyone at the school just loves her and she has made friends on the bus too, Alexandra loves to sit with her, she grabs her book bag and puts it under her seat for her and is like a mother hen to her. Hunter is her carpooling friend although most of the time Noel falls asleep on the ride.

Big thanks to a couple I met at Lowe's one day while we were shopping for new carpet before the girls came home from the hospital and happened to be that they had a blind child too '
 * that was meant to be * Kelly & Dave aka Hunters parents.
They are helping me with picking up Noel from the bus and bringing her to my work, the traveling we have to do to get our children to the school they need to be in is hard and sometimes makes life a little more stressful but in the end

It's Worth It