Pick Up Time

Since Hilary started to work at the elementary school full time, some things needed to change to adapt to Owen's schedule for the afternoon.  Three days each week the pre-school bus drops him off at a babysitter's house in Rossville.  Other teachers' children are also there so he has lots of kids to play with through the afternoon.

On the other two days, however, his therapy sessions are scheduled for the afternoons. Blaine had suggested that the times be changed to evening so that either he or Hilary could take him.  However, we volunteered to pick him up at school and take him into therapy on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to keep his routine consistent and so as not to add more things for Hilary and Blaine to do in the evenings.

Today was the first day since we were still in Florida last week when Hilary began her new job and Owen started going to the babysitter's house for lunch and the afternoon.

I was parked in front of the school, in the line of vehicles waiting for their children, and in front of the bus, when the kids came out.  Owen was so excited about riding the bus with one of his friends that he ran past the Escape to the bus door.  I scrambled out of the Escape and yelled at him to come back and I could hear the bus driver telling him not to board the bus because he was riding home with his grandma.

As I grabbed his arm, he looked startled, as if he didn't understand what was happening.  The two teachers were approaching with other children and laughed even though he had been reminded that his grandma was picking him up that day, he must have still forgotten and was heading for the bus to ride to the babysitter's house. 

I think that he was confused because to him, I am Mamaw, not Grandma, and he just didn't understand that *I* was the one picking him up!

After he was in the Escape, safely buckled into his car seat in the back seat, he was waving and yelling "Bye bye" to everyone.  Then he began to sing and talk and that continued all the way home.

After lunch, which was for him berries and mini-muffins with a glass of chocolate milk, we went to therapy in Lafayette.  He was so tired that he fell asleep on the drive in, but his therapist said later that during his session he was full of energy.

He did well today too!  She said he played a game while lying on his tummy for four minutes which was an accomplishment.  He also played a crawling game and she was happy with his performance.  He seemed very happy when I picked him up.

After we returned home, he continued to watch "Cars" on the Disney + channel after he enjoyed another snack of berries and mini-muffins plus more chocolate milk.  Daddy came to pick him up around 3.

Tomorrow will be our second day with picking Owen up and taking him to therapy, this time to work on speech.  He is such fun to be with. 

I still am missing the days from last year when Hilary would stop by in the mornings with Lynnlee and Owen when he wasn't in school.  We would eat breakfast, chat for a while, sometimes run into Lafayette to wander around Hobby Lobby or Meijer.  Those days are over. 

But for a few months we will be picking up Owen on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and taking him to therapy after lunch those days.  In April and May Lynnlee will be joining us every week day until the end of the school year.

Fun times ahead.

Gotta love those kiddos!