We've been excited for quite some time now for the day Christian would get to start playing baseball. This Saturday couldn't have come at a better time either.
The last couple of weeks have been extremely difficult for us. We've been in and out of teacher conferences, IEP meetings (Individualized Education Plan, that's plan the school puts together for how they will address the boys' issues) therapy sessions and therapy evaluations. It can really bring a parent down to hear so many negative things about your children. Not they they are trying to be negative, it's part of all their jobs to be addressing the needs of the boys. Constantly hearing that your child has this or that wrong with them can drag you down majorly. I was hitting rock bottom last week.
Then Saturday rolled around, and we got to take Christian to his first day in t-ball. We were really nervous when we first got there; we are always really nervous when we know Christian will be in a new situation. We don't' know how he is going to react, if other kids or parents will notice if he is acting different, if he'll hear an airplane and panic or if he'll have one of his other meltdowns.
We walked up to the group that were gathering around, waiting for the coaches to do roll call. Christian walked up to a little boy and said, "Hi, what's your name? My name is Christian Siebert." This coming from my child in which we are being told is "anti-social" in school. What a joy it was for us to see this! And I'm beginning to to have a hard time believing Christian is anti-social in school, but totally social with us in pretty much any situation we place him in. hhmmm?
Then the practice actually starts. Christian gets out there an he is good! I mean really good! He throws the ball well, caught a couple throws from his team mate and he hits like Albert Pujols!! We had multiple parents comment to us on how good Christian was. We just can't explain how this made us feel to watch him to something so well and not be told he is doing something wrong. It lifted our spirits so much. It was the perfect morning to have after the last week we had.
We can't wait to see what the rest of the season holds for Christian!!
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