Friday, September 28, 2012

Naomi Loves Other Children

While it would not be obvious to the casual observer, due to her very eccentric ways of interacting with other people, Naomi LOVES other children.  For those of us who can 'read' her body language and other cues, she is much more animated and excited when other children are around, and she is more willing to try new things.  I think the socialization she gets with other children is the reason Naomi loves school so much.  This past week at school, all of the children participated in an activity at the block table.  Naomi swatted at the blocks as her way of participating in the activity.  That might sound like no big deal, but for Naomi it is a huge deal.  Naomi DOES NOT like new things, she is very hand defensive, and therefore she ESPECIALLY DOES NOT like touching new things.  Usually making her touch new things makes her scream and cry as though you have made her touch some sort of flesh dissolving acid.  The day after the block activity, when Naomi got to pick what she wanted to do after circle time, she picked blocks.  That was a new choice for her too.  She usually picks computer, where she likes to 'build people' or stretch out time or something like that.  In other words, solitary activities that are familiar to her.  So, her aide Deb takes her over to the block table, gets the blocks set up and....nothing.  No swatting.  Not interested at all.  Naomi looked away and ignored the blocks altogether.  Deb and Miss Stephanie, her very clever teacher, theorize that maybe she only likes blocks when all of the other children are there too.  They decide to test the theory and call the other children over.  As soon as the other children sit down and start playing with the blocks, Naomi goes back to swatting her blocks.  We think this is so cute!  She wanted to play along side the other children and blocks are only fun when other children are playing too.  Unfortunately, she came down with a cold the next day, yesterday, and had to miss school on Thursday.  She seems a little better today and we are hoping she is fully recovered by tomorrow, because we had plans to take her BACK to DelGrosso's for the last weekend the amusement park is open.  In the meantime, she has been doing a lot of snuggling, reading books and watching shows while she recuperates.

Naomi curled up on the couch watching a show, just how she likes.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Vacation!


Naomi got to play hooky from school, and we took our (late) summer vacation to Stone Harbor for the week.  We all had a ton of fun.  We rented a house that was right across the street from the Stone Harbor beach patrol that had handicapped access even onto the beach, one block from a park, and three blocks from the main shopping/dining area.  Every day we would go for a walk around 7:00 (a couple days Naomi had been up for over an hour by this point) and get coffee from a shop that looked like Central Perk.  We would then come back and have breakfast and go to the beach.  There were flies everywhere early in the week (Naomi had over 50 bites) so we took some side trips to Cape May and the Wildwood boardwalk.  The fly situation cleared up later in the week and we went to the beach.  Like the last two years we carted her jumper and she loved being in the sand.  This year was especially great because she loved sitting in the sand by the surf and having the waves crash on her.  Friday we sat there for over and hour with her squealing  and laughing!  We also spent some time in the pool.  Like all vacations it was over so fast, but Naomi had a really great time.






Swinging in the park

I love going high!

In my jumper on the beach

Sleeping with Mommy

Lunch at Cape May

Our day at Cape May

Playing in the sand is tiring

Napping Bear

In the pool with Daddy

Two Sea Lions in the surf


Anticipation...

Whoa that cold

This is so much fun!

Family photo

My Princess

Friday, September 7, 2012

Labor Day Weekend

Hi Everybody,

 Naomi had a great Labor Day Weekend!  On Saturday we went to the boat club with Nana and Grampy for the family picnic.  Naomi enjoyed swinging, and a boat ride, and swimming in her pool!  We had a full day.
Check out my new sneakers
I love swinging



Not sure about the vest


                                                       I like it now!


Love the pool!



I got tired


On Sunday, Naomi went horseback riding and swimming and swinging on the front porch at Grandma and Papa's.

Don't love the helmet

I think we can ride for a little bit



On Monday we went back to the amusement park.  



We had a pretty full weekend!