Porter starts Kindergarten and Broken Bones!

 

So it finally happened...our boy started Kindergarten! Every year in September I get a touch of "first day jitters".  But this year, I hardly slept a wink before that first day! And it took until lunch time before the knots untied in my stomach. This year my boy was starting school too.

Of course it went great, I knew it would:)

However, it just so happened that his first day was cut short. He had an appt in Charlottetown and had to leave before recess. The week before he had been climbing ( one of his most favorite things to do) on a play kitchen and fell. After a trip to the emergency room, and three X rays later, the diagnosis wasn't complete. They could see a line, but his elbow was also full of fluid so it was hard to tell for sure, could be a fracture OR a bad sprain. He went home with a half- cast and a sling with an appt. the following week to have it checked again. I couldn't have been prouder of the way he handled the whole visit. We were there for more than 6 hours all together, not to mention he had a broken bone!!  It is times like this when I realize how far we have come.

Luckily there was a sink in our waiting room. Our boy could watch water run all day long!

So the following week, on that very first day of school, Daddy picked him up right before recess and off they went to the Fracture Clinic to have it checked. Daddy said he was the bravest boy ! He left with this blue, waterproof, cast. He has to wear it for 3 weeks. He is handling it waaaay better than I would. Have I said how awesome this kid is?

So it has been a little over a week since that day. We are beyond proud of how well Porter is doing in his new big boy school! He has a great team of support, wonderful Educational Assistants and his autism consultant spent the first two days with him at his new school. How could it not go well?? He has had a few moments here and there, but haven't we all? He is making new friends, learning new things and I have no doubt in my mind that great things are going to happen. I can't wait.