The end of the year

When we got home from Natalie's PT this morning, I was looking at my calendar to mark down a date, when I realized that today was her last PT session until January! I don't know if her PT didn't realize it either, but I felt bad that we didn't get to say "good-bye, Merry Christmas, etc." today.

Normally Natalie would go to PT this Thursday, but her IEP to discuss speech therapy is Thursday morning, so we'll miss that PT session. And I'm just getting used to the rule of the school district that a therapy session can't be made up if we cancel the session...it can only be made up if the therapist cancels the session. AND the rule that Natalie gets no PT while school is not in session (and this is the last week of school)...

So now I "get it". We used to be able to make up therapy sessions as long as it was within the month that the session was cancelled...and it didn't matter when school was in session, because Natalie's therapy wasn't through the school district. New bureaucracy, new rules.

I feel a little stressed to make sure I do Natalie's therapy homework during the break so the therapist doesn't notice a regression when Natalie returns in January (the therapist says she notices when I don't do belly time with Natalie). I can easily get 30 minutes in a day...it's the additional 30 minutes each day that is hard. Yes, yes, I'm not going to stress myself over it too much...

...no, this picture doesn't have anything to do with this blog post. I just thought it was cute of Natalie and Konrad getting ready for the Christmas party the other night. Natalie loves to look at herself in whatever outfit we just put on her.