First day of PreSchool

Today was Jack's first day of preschool. I had a meeting last week with his therapist's, school nurse, teacher, and principle. I have been very impressed by there program. We went to open house yesterday. He was a little scared. There was AM and PM parents and kids so it was a lot of people. He warmed up after some of the people cleared out. He seemed OK with it all. This morning when he woke up he was excited. He was ready to go. When we got there he was OK. He went right up to the door to Wait. Once they started to come out he got a bit scared. He ran and said he didn't want to go , but in a Jack joking way if you know him well. Then I picked him up and the head teacher came over to talk with him. He told her he had a water bottle in his bag if he needed it. She then said OK and tried to take him. He said "NO I WANT TO WALK" So I put him down and she held his hand. She introduced him to another boy and held this child hands also. Then they walked in and he didn't look back. When I came to pick him up they said he did well. They said mid way through he started crying for me. They said it was hot so they took him in the therapy room which has AC. He stayed in there and wanted to skip Art class. I asked him if he had fun he said yes. I asked what he did he said "play and cried for you". Then he said "the teachers are mean and I am never ever going there again". I asked why and he said "because". I am not sure what that is about. He said one girl was mean too. I said well you have to go back Monday to play with your other friends and he said "OK". A weird conversation so we will see how the first full week goes.

Keep Jack in your prayers. This is a large change for him. Pray for us also. It is hard with his issues to trust that people know what to look for and do with Jack. Things can pop up quickly. He has little signs that most people (even people close to him) don't know to pick up on. Pray that his therapists are good and his therapies go well. His old PT is going to do some transition visits so that makes me feel a bit better. One good thing is that morning is Jack's best time usually. The hard thing with that is we just don't want them to think he is better then he is and have something happen. He has been in that situation many times and the out come has not been good. I will say that they did good with the over heating today and making sure he got into the AC. I have to say I am pleased at this point. They seem to be listening from the meeting and taking this seriously. We want him to function as normal as possible. We also must not forget how fast he crashes. It is hard, but we pray it all goes well.