Kaydee graduates preschool!

After 2 years, Kaydee has graduated from preschool. She has grown so much in that time - especially in the last year. She had great teachers this year: Mr. Dan and Miss Jennie. Kaydee loves them. She had a lot of helpers along the way too in the form of a special ed teacher, a speech therapist and  a physical therapist. The plan for kindergarten is for her to go to a diagnostic kindergarten. It's pretty much the same as her preschool class with the small size and more educators working one on one. Because of her delays, she still seems too young to me for the big world of kindergarten.

She Did It!

Her class put on a play, "The 3 Little Pigs" for the program. It was so cute. Kaydee was a wolf. She huffed and puffed and blew the houses down.

After the program , we had a picnic. Kaydee received a goody bag from her teachers that had bubbles, playdough, and sidewalk chalk. Mr. Dan joined her for some sidewalk coloring.

Miss Jennie, Kaydee, and Mr. Dan. She is really going to miss them.

We have been trying to figure out the source of Kaydee's delays. In April, she saw a neurologist who suggested we'd have better luck with a geneticist. They pulled some strings and got her in at the end of April. At first, they were thinking Williams Syndrome, but now they are thinking Fragile X Syndrome. They want to do a microarray test on her. For her, it's as simple as drawing some blood, but it is a rather complicated and expensive test that looks at her DNA for abnormalities on her chromosomes. The insurance doesn't want to cover it because they claim it's experimental. The doctor is appealing again. Perhaps we should throw our 2 cents in too. I know that nothing will cure her, but knowing what we are facing will help us to prepare for her future. But one thing is certain, she has a very loving spirit and she's a fighter. Seems like she tackles things head-on and she keeps going until she gets it. She makes my heart celebrate with every accomplishment.