Touring Preschools

When Georgia turns 3 she will start going to preschool. She won't be eligible for Early Intervention any more and will get most of her services through the school district. I'm slightly freaking out that my baby will be going to school. So in order to try and prepare myself we have toured a couple of preschools. We have several different options for Georgia, anywhere from she can go and be in a regular classroom in a regular school (we are not going to do this) to she stays home and a teacher comes to teach her. We have pretty much decided that she will either go to the Utah School For The Deaf And Blind (USDB) or a special needs school (they just built one close to our home called Horizon). So we went and toured both schools. I got the girls all dressed up because ya know you've gotta make a good impression. When we went to USDB Eden went to play at Damon's house but when we to Horizon she came with us. She kept saying "I want to meet a parent." Georgia went into her standard mode and slept through most of both tours. We liked USDB, we liked the teacher (she too had a disabled child), and that the class was small (only 5 kids) and we liked that she would get a lot of therapy and they were very parent centered. But we didn't like that it was so far from us (its in Orem), and that it was in a dingy trailer behind an elementary school, and its all day. We loved Horizon. It was new and fresh and had lots of equipment and it had a sensory room and a physical therapy room. There were lots of aides to help the kids and the teacher has been teaching special needs kids for 34 years. It even has a pool/spa. And its 7 minutes from my house and only half day. Georgia will be the youngest in her class (the class has ages 3-8 years old). But they are all similarly disabled, most of the students are wheelchair bound. The whole school only has about 75 students (there are I think 7 in her class) and most of those 75 students are on the older ARTEC side of the school. So I think we will send her to Horizon. Although a lot will depend on what happens at her IEP. I'm completely freaked out and she seems too little to go to school.

I remember when they were tiny and I was so looking forward to when Georgia would go to school so I could have a few moments of down time (sad, that just having crazy Eden at home is considered down time) and now that its here it seems too soon.

Eden is having a little bit of a hard time with knowing that Georgia gets to go to school and she doesn't. She so wants to go to school. Next fall I'll put Eden in preschool a couple times a week.

Whatever will I do with all the free time?

Hmmm . . . SLEEP!