Connor's Sort of Graduation

The 8th grade at Mack Lyon had their 8th grade awards on Tuesday, May 31.  We were really concerned about how Connor would behave and about his anxiety so we opted to just celebrate at home.  This Aspberger's thing totally blows when there are big things like this going on.  After much deliberation as to what if anything to get him as a gift, Don and I bought him new bike and he asked for balloons.  Not many 14 year olds are still thrilled with balloons.  I made him a Skor cake too.  The  next day at school he got his advancement certificate and was really thrilled about it.  I forgot to take a picture of it though.  He had a really great year this year mostly because he had a really great Special Ed teacher named Travis who was such a life saver and great advocate and helper for Connor.  Other than an incident that happened on May 20 that was really not that big of a deal until the administration made a big deal of it-Connor had very few problems this year.  His grades were the best they have ever been and that is again because Travis really helped with modifying his work and getting his teachers to let him redo things when he needed to.  It is practically incomprehensible that he is going to high school next year but there it is.  Another miracle is that Travis is moving to the high school too!  Woo hoo for Connor.