After yesterday, I am amazed Olivia's school didn't lock and bar the doors when we pulled up today. When I dropped off Olivia at school this morning, it appeared that Olivia was going to do a repeat performance of yesterday (refer to the previous blog). She crossed her arms, sidestepped her aid and started to make a break for it. I yelled out the car window (probably a little louder than necessary) "THERE WILL BE NO IPAD TODAY!!!" Amazingly, Olivia's hand shot out and grabbed her aid's hand and walked like a little princess into the school. The aid was so shocked she just looked over her shoulder at me with eyes the size of softballs. I drove away as fast at as an elementary parking lot would permit just in case she reverted to Rabid Olivia. If that happened, I didn't want to know.
Several hours later, I was sitting at my desk shuffling through endless paper when my phone rang. There it was; the school's phone number. I actually hollered "Come on! Not again!". I didn't answer and let it go to voice mail.
DON'T JUDGE ME!
Yesterday was rough and, YES, I am that parent! Anyway, I listened to the message and it was her Sped teacher calling just to let me know that Olivia was doing awesome! I guess the combo of taking away the iPad, making her do LOTS of manual labor, and reminding her 3,819 times that what happened yesterday would never, ever be tolerated again worked!! At the end of the day when Dan picked she and Eli up, the Sped teacher said that today was her best day yet. She read a book (something she hates), she did math, and... AND...she had a good attitude. And if that wasn't awesome enough, it got better!
We got home and she did her chores without complaining, then she and Eli took turns reading pages of a book...TOGETHER! She sat at the table and ate dinner without choking, spitting or crying then followed that by clearing the table and helping to clean the kitchen. And THEN, she cuddle with me on the couch while we used her autism language app on her iPad in a way that it was not intended, resulting in a lot of giggling. And the cherry on top? She went to bed with out crying or bargaining and went right to sleep.
Yesterday was quite the storm but today was all rainbow. I love rainbows!
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