K3 let me do a photo shoot with her this weekend. I really enjoyed getting my camera out and working with her. She can be quite photogenic!
We have her final surgery scheduled for the end of April. This will include her final implant as well as adjustments to her gums to get them ready for the teeth they'll be bolting in. We're such pros at this now that we're not even worried. The last couple of appointments will be the construction of the teeth that will be placed in her mouth. It will be down to the wire getting everything done before the deadline the insurance company gave us.
In the meantime, she continues to go to her school program. Our crossing the street lessons have made her more confident about riding the bus and getting to and from her school. She's also started working a short internship in the school kitchen which is not exciting for her at all, mostly clean up work....but she says she enjoys it.
A cute story: While we were downtown at her doctor's appt last week, we'd gotten in the elevator at the parking garage when I saw two business men trying to make the elevator. I held the doors for them and they got on, still talking with each other. K3 had been standing on the other side of the elevator from me and I had just pressed the lobby button and stood back when she came barreling across the car, brushing the two men aside and buried her face in my neck. They were completely taken aback and one of them said something like "what the heck?"... both of them were staring at us. I put my arm around her and said something like "the umbilical cord only stretches so far" but I could tell they were thinking there was something odd about K3.
I actually felt pretty serene as we got off the elevator. I whispered to her as we walked outside...
"Why'd you trample the guys in the elevator to get to me?"
She gazed up at me with her pretty blue eyes and smiled, "I just felt a little clingy."
That's my girl... unique, sweet, one-of-a-kind~
Mothering someone with special needs is just like that.
K3 let me do a photo shoot with her this weekend. I really enjoyed getting my camera out and working with her. She can be quite photogenic!
We have her final surgery scheduled for the end of April. This will include her final implant as well as adjustments to her gums to get them ready for the teeth they'll be bolting in. We're such pros at this now that we're not even worried. The last couple of appointments will be the construction of the teeth that will be placed in her mouth. It will be down to the wire getting everything done before the deadline the insurance company gave us.
In the meantime, she continues to go to her school program. Our crossing the street lessons have made her more confident about riding the bus and getting to and from her school. She's also started working a short internship in the school kitchen which is not exciting for her at all, mostly clean up work....but she says she enjoys it.
A cute story: While we were downtown at her doctor's appt last week, we'd gotten in the elevator at the parking garage when I saw two business men trying to make the elevator. I held the doors for them and they got on, still talking with each other. K3 had been standing on the other side of the elevator from me and I had just pressed the lobby button and stood back when she came barreling across the car, brushing the two men aside and buried her face in my neck. They were completely taken aback and one of them said something like "what the heck?"... both of them were staring at us. I put my arm around her and said something like "the umbilical cord only stretches so far" but I could tell they were thinking there was something odd about K3.
I actually felt pretty serene as we got off the elevator. I whispered to her as we walked outside...
"Why'd you trample the guys in the elevator to get to me?"
She gazed up at me with her pretty blue eyes and smiled, "I just felt a little clingy."
That's my girl... unique, sweet, one-of-a-kind~
Mothering someone with special needs is just like that.
Unique...
Sweet...
One of a kind...
You just have to let it roll over you...
AG out.