August 30, 2011

First grade continues to go very well for Grace.  We're extremely happy with her teacher, and it seems like she has a good bunch of classmates.  There are already a number of girls who she wants to have over for play dates.  She wakes up every morning excited to go.  Tomorrow night she starts her weekly religious education class.  Those go for an hour and fifteen minutes every Wednesday night during the school year.  We changed churches when we moved this summer, but we assume she'll like it as much as she did last year.

Our next project in the house will be to re-model one of the mainfloor bathrooms for Grace.  We'll get a walk in shower that we can wheel a shower chair right into, and we'll get a sink with nothing underneath so she can wheel her chair right up to that.  A handicap bathroom will be a nice improvement, hopefully in the same way that the wheelchair ramps have been!

August 20, 2011

Two days of first grade underway, and things are going great for Grace.  She is back at Leeds Elementary, which is where she attended preschool.  She had no problems changing schools--probably helps that she was already familiar with the school.  She was so excited for school on Wednesday night that she couldn't sleep.

Her teacher's name is Mrs. Church, and we're really going to like her.  Grace even told her that she loved her yesterday.  Pretty funny.  Grace has the same aide this year, and that really helps as far as knowing what Grace's needs are.  We can't say enough about the kind of job that the school district has done accommodating Grace's needs. 

Grace is a new promotional video for Camp High Hopes.  Here is the link:  http://camphighhopes.com/.  It's the third video down on the right side of the page, and Grace is the third person to speak in the video.  She talks 3-4 times during the video.  Pretty cute.