B Writes:

Hi this is B. Thank you to everyone who has and has not donated to pay for my trike but instead for trike equiptment, i love it and so does Crobar. He attempts to sit on the seats whenever we take him on it but he does not know how he is supposed to sit on it without falling down. We have agreed to stop taking him however because he is choking himself on it since we like going really fast on it and he can't keep up with the trike. But mom trys to limit our bike time for the dog and there is no limit to my energy on that trike.

Mom says: I wanted to post a video of her on the trike, but I haven't got one yet. B wrote this by herself. :) (Well, not this last bit.)  Please feel free to repost this.

New Puppy and IEP

Phew, the last few weeks have been hectic. We got a new puppy, just three months old, and he is a handful. Such a cutie, though, and he will end up being a very big dog. He's a Shepherd/Retriever mix, and we named him Crowbar. I'll post pictures later. B loves him.

Sparky tolerates him, but he lets the puppy sleep next to him, and he's pretty patient with him. The puppy adores Sparky.

In other news, we finally had an IEP at B's school. That is an Individualized Education Plan, and we should have two a year, but with the teacher's job action, we had to wait. B is doing well in class, even with her behaviour problems. Her teacher said that she is the only kid in class who gets their jokes.

Her counsellor, Behaviour Consultant, and Social Worker all went to the meeting. We will keep working on her social skills, peer interaction, and Life Skills development. She has had some hard times dealing with the kids in her class, because her social skills are very undeveloped.

We put her in a Life Skills class on Saturdays, run by CLBC, and for the summer I will enroll her in another Life Skills program, one that I hope she will continue in the fall.

Her neurologist is retiring. We have had him as her doctor for many years, and I quite like him. We don't have a new one yet.