Today is Johnny's first day of school (starting his 2nd year of preschool). As some of you know Johnny has a developmental disorder called PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder) that causes a major delay in speech. We could hardly get him to say anything until he was about 3 years and 3 months (a typical timeline with PDD) then all of the sudden he started to progress. It wasn't an overnight "Wow he can talk now!" but the rate that he has been adding words and phrases over the past 8 months has been huge for us. We were lucky to have a great pediatrician who noticed something wrong early on so we could start him on speech therapy. He had speech therapy at our house once a week until he was 3 then he started preschool and continued working with a speech therapist in school. Over the summer we were extremely blessed to trade speech therapy for voice lessons with Johnny's school speech therapist. Her name is Amy and I'm pretty sure John had a huge crush on her :) There is a different speech therapist this year at school so it was nice to still be able to see Amy every once in a while.
Yesterday I went to fill out all of the registration paperwork and let Johnny show Joshua his classroom. They were both so excited to be there.
Johnny with his teacher Emily
Johnny let Joshua roll his backpack around for a few seconds I guess to help him feel included!
Anxiously waiting for the bus to arrive
Sprinting as fast as he can to get on the bus
Poor Joshua feeling a little left out.
Joshua is pretty sad right now that Johnny is gone. He spilled milk on his shirt this morning and was in the process of changing clothes when the bus came for Johnny. I ran out to take a few pictures and when I came back Joshua had grabbed his Buzz suitcase and was trying to follow his brother out. How do you explain to a 2 year old that worships the ground his brother walks on that he's too young to follow him to school?!
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Brandy, you have the most beautiful children! I hope Johnny has a fantastic year at school. :)
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