Tag: decoding treasure

Reading over updates from 2011 – Keira has regressed almost back to the beginning of her therapy at Reach since starting at Brown.
I want to cry – She hasn’t just stop progressing, she’s failing.

Poor Keira is sneezing like crazy.

A month ago, Keira programmed my watch to beep every hour and the alarm to go off at 3AM! I was able to change the alarm, but not turn it off even though I followed the directions.
Today I finally got around to picking up a new watch and this afternoon Keira some how figured out how to turn off the alarm on the old one. Little Bugger!

We never know exactly what Keira understands since her communications skills are limited to telling us what she wants to eat. Plus everything comes out sounding a little like a robot so when she says something we wonder if it’s scripted.
Me: “Girls, I wasn‘t home today so I need to bake a treat right now for after school snack.”
Keira: “I.Want.Cookie.Dough.Pleeeeeeease.” [shocked she understood]
Me: “It‘s going to take a little while to make cookies.”
Keira: “I.Want.Broc.co.li.Please.”
(Broccoli is 3 words)

Every day Nick and Keira come out of school together and every day Nick tells his dad that he has to say good bye to Keira before he leaves.
Then Nick goes right up to Keira’s face and says “Keira. Good bye Keira”
And Keira says good bye. If half the adults were as bright as Nick, Keira would be much further along.

Me: Keira, put your clothes back on!
Comes out of her room a few minutes later wearing only her socks.

Keira taught herself to Google on her tablet tonight.
Not sure if I should be impressed or scared!
She couldn’t tell me why she was upset, but she had an instant connection with a search engine.

Trying to figure this out.
It takes 40 seconds to microwave Keira’s lunch.
That’s 2 hours a year.
The school refuses to microwave Keira’s lunch, because
1. the fuses in the building blow [unlikely according to the Fire Department]
2. if they do it for one child in the district they must do it for all the children in the district.
Other schools in the district do microwave children’s meals. But instead of microwaving Keira’s meal, which I am more than happy to provide to avoid any kind of cross contamination and saving a huge expense for the school district, they are willing to have yet another meeting to figure out how they can provide 1 child who is G/D Free with a hot meal at the cost of the normal hot lunch that the school provides.
I wonder how many hours have been spent coming up with reasons to avoid microwaving 1 child’s meal which her mother is more than willing to provide – I’d love the total cost of those hours, not to mention the additional cost to the school/district for actually providing the meal.

First day in the Kindergarten Classroom for Keira!
Explore time!

First trip to the market with Keira Not in the cart!
She did so well!
She needed only a few reminders to keep her hand on the cart.