TWO MILESTONES--October 14, 2011
Technical problems have kept me from making new posts about TWO important milestones:
1) Ellie has started school (AND is riding the school bus to and from school), and LOVES it! Her first week was interrupted with another seizure that knocked her out for four days, but she is recovered now and going strong. It took some time for the school to get a bus for the kids, so we took her for a while and just let her get used to being there and getting used to the schedule and the teacher. The school (Greek public school for kids with special needs) is on the property of ELAPAP (a Greek charity for kids with special needs--
www.elepap.gr/). The school provides the education and the bus for free. ELAPAP provides a kind of morning snack and various therapies which we are still getting sorted out. They are also looking for a new wheelchair for Ellie, which she has outgrown.
First day of school!
School days can be tiring (especially when
schoolgirls keep waking up in the middle of
the night!)
Ellie catches the bus at 7:20 am and gets back home between 2 and 2:15 each day. We are very grateful for a caring and competent kindergarten teacher for her--Mrs. Loukou.
2) The second milestone is that when Ellie went to the dentist last night for another filling, she also had her FIRST TOOTH PULLED (bottom, front)! The new one is already coming in.
Our little girl is growing up!
Technical problems have kept me from making new posts about TWO important milestones:
1) Ellie has started school (AND is riding the school bus to and from school), and LOVES it! Her first week was interrupted with another seizure that knocked her out for four days, but she is recovered now and going strong. It took some time for the school to get a bus for the kids, so we took her for a while and just let her get used to being there and getting used to the schedule and the teacher. The school (Greek public school for kids with special needs) is on the property of ELAPAP (a Greek charity for kids with special needs--
www.elepap.gr/). The school provides the education and the bus for free. ELAPAP provides a kind of morning snack and various therapies which we are still getting sorted out. They are also looking for a new wheelchair for Ellie, which she has outgrown.
schoolgirls keep waking up in the middle of
the night!)
Ellie catches the bus at 7:20 am and gets back home between 2 and 2:15 each day. We are very grateful for a caring and competent kindergarten teacher for her--Mrs. Loukou.
2) The second milestone is that when Ellie went to the dentist last night for another filling, she also had her FIRST TOOTH PULLED (bottom, front)! The new one is already coming in.
Our little girl is growing up!
