My schedule afforded me a day to spend with Juda at school, first time ever. I met him along with his class at the bowling alley for an early game of?????well not sure you could really call it bowling, more like "stop, drop and role". Glad those bowling alley's aren't' made of thin wood. I then picked up Bethany from school and we headed back to Juda's school to spend a time of singing/signing a few songs before enjoying lunch with him. Which by the way he is so very good at signing and gestures to songs. He is verbalizing more and more, of course it sounds most like if you hold your nose and close your ears, that is what his verbal language sounds like, so we have to alter our hearing to understand him, which is fine, just take some getting used to. He is quite the site among the other K-2nd graders waiting in line for lunch, gathering up his own spoon/napkin/milk, then receiving his tray from the lunch lady. He is so independent, he made me so proud. We just followed him as he instructed us what to do. He was so proud to be the one in charge of us, rather than the opposite. He is so famous among his peers and school faculty. Everyone knows and loves Juda. One of the ladies that I knew told me a few of the lunchroom staff asked her " who was with Juda," ha ha ha ha. There asking tells me one of two things, either I need to come have lunch with Juda more often or I don't look like I should be his mother, or maybe both. We then spent recess with him and his friends which is so enjoyable as his friends in his class are all special needs, two of them have Down Syndrome, which makes them the three amigo's for sure.
Like I said I hardly have time in my day to visit Juda at school. Ai no Kesshin is a full time volunteer job. This week God has afforded me a chance to catch up on the home front. Makes me wonder what next week holds for me to have such opportunities this week?????? I'm glad for them no matter what tomorrow holds.
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