Autism Week

the ending of the Autism Week was met with much anticipation. The students went to Mass at the nearby church, and was engaged in a contest much like GAMEKNB, where students progress to winning when they get answers correctly.

Dale won in their category. Jumping to a number when he gets the answer correctly. People around me are shouting his name. Clearly, Dale was a crowd favorite.

He did not win in the spelling contest though, because he did not dare join. He went into a tantrum at the trial attempt where they were asked to spell PRINCIPAL. He cried onstage and said that he did not know the spelling of long words.

Almost all the teachers went up to cheer him on and prevent him from going down the stage, to no avail.

In any case, we still are happy that he at least joined and won in one contest.

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Mom arrived on January 25th just 3 hours delayed. When Dale saw her, he went into hiding at first, but got into her arms when they embraced.

The kids put up banners the night before that said WELCOME HOME MAMA ROSIE, and some 'grandmother' poems, too. We fixed up the other room so she'll have her own again. She bought a bed the same day and now the room is also where the kids stay most of the time just for hanging out.

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Mom and Dad bought me the Autism Awareness ribbon that I told them about. Only one manufactures this, Offray. Price including shipping was about $20 for the 10-yard ribbon.

I started making the ribbons so I can give them to teachers and parents of children with autism at school. Unfortunately, I couldn't do it within Autism Week.

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Mom also brought home a new digicam, so that's what I'm using now, instead of my fonecam. It gives out clearer pictures even at night. Though it takes super slow to upload to Photobucket, since the files are so much larger than that from the fonecam, and I'm only on dial-up.

Here is a picture of Dale when we went to Glorietta for a bit of fun:

Anyway, more pictures to come as soon as I'm done uploading.