Kim - I need to start making my own little topic notebook, but I'm sure my husband will have a field day over that. I'm the very meticulous person who craves structure, so flying on the whim us often exhausting for me.
Regarding books, I'll have to pick those up and see if u can dredge any of the older material type cars books out from a huge used book store we have local to us. I've been snagging up every Dr Seuss and Disney book since they're a steal at 2$ a pop. I wouldn't be surprised to find the books for me there as well. It's a for to ceiling maze in there, but the trip alone is an adventure.
He actually just received about 6 puzzles, all cars related and had then together faster than the person who gave then to him anticipated. I think they are 24 piece puzzles, and he completed them all in a shocking pace. I'm going to see how far he can go and try buying some larger puzzles.
Suevv - I will definitely add that to my list of magazines to subscribe to, the kids love getting mail addressed to them, and my husband can have something for him when he's home. We've gone to a few local car shows, but the size and atmosphere clearly wasn't that of a large one, at least according to my husband. We go to monster jam and I've been debating the nitro circus since it is also coming in town. I guess I can possibly start when u go taker my van for an oil change. They had a viper in the show room, and go figure it was red, but the salesmen were far more interested in coffee than taking to the little boy freaking out about Lightning McQueen, so we walked the lot in search of x color truck and x color race car and vans like ours. If it works out better, maybe we'll swing by the Ford dealer to look at mustangs, since he screams he sees one anytime were in the car and one passes. I was hopeful dh would buy another project mustang so he could learn from the inside out by his father, but with travel so frequent, he's rarely home.
I completely forgot speed racer! I wonder if I can find the old episodes on an online streaming site like Amazon.
Aufilia - I'm hesitant for preschool for him for a few reasons. Although he can handle the mental tasks, his short stature and developing motor skills and still undiagnosed gi issue (resulting in frequent bowel movements) have me scared he may be a lot to handle for someone who doesn't know him. He has to climb on the toilet still, and isn't the best at clothing himself properly (inside out and backwards doesn't phase him). He doesn't ask for help at home, but we're fortunate to have a very low seated toilet in his bathroom, but a small step stool is still too short, so he had to fully disrobe waist down to go. He's beginning to seemingly get better at these things, but he's also not fully clothed like he would be at school, and I could imagine the panic of trying to get the shoes off and everything else while trying not to have an accident. We're low key here, him running around in lightning underwear didn't bother me. I'd have to really feel like they wouldn't shame him for having to constantly go and require help to do it. I'm sure I'm just freaking out a little, but averaging 10 times a day seems like a major hassle for whoever he would be in class with.
Thousands of dollars in visits and tests and speacialists galore, we still have no answers.
Reader - Oh those look like awesome Christmas present ideas! My dh is like yours, and I'm over here oblivious to what is what. I'm defibrillator going to start exposing him to the more advanced level books, even just for the pictures, if not for his benefit then for mine so he had someone to relate to when dh is traveling.
Thank you all for your kind words and help. I don't feel like I'm failing so hard now. You are a great community, and I hope you don't mind my sticking around, even if I'm just lurking the posts. Thanks again!
