let’s use your inside voice, I am sure that was the theme of the day at school… Korey finally did go to sleep after getting up/down for over 2 hours after the hotdogs last night! oh, and he ate ANOTHER  4 hotdogs after the initial quantity which I can’t even repeat now as I will definitely vomit!! ( not really but you get the picture) so he slept til I spoke the magic words “Korey, let’s get up, its almost time for the bus!” the key word being “bus”! he got up quickly, ran for the bathroom, ran back in his room running out again with his sneakers and socks on and a tshirt, he has no sense of modesty… thank goodness Kileigh had already been carried away earlier by her bus at that ungodly hour of 6a!! Korey has done the naked streaking more times than we like to acknowledge, even when Kileigh’s friends have stayed over and also relatives have been spectators to his “love of freedom”!

we, me as the director, Korey doing the gathering and dressing, finally are presentable for school, ADL’s are done ( for the newbies or “typicals”-activities of daily living, face washing, teeth brushing, deodorant on, hair at least touched!) breakfast is minimal as he loves to eat at school with the kids, he throws a treat to the dog, flings his backpack on ( after making sure himself that water, chips and fake crystal light are all packed in) and starts pacing in the final 3-4 minutes before the bus rolls down the street… this morning he is out and down at the end of the driveway waiting for that bus!! he gets on, haphazardly waves and is enveloped into the yellow!

once again this afternoon the bus rolls around and deposits Korey home! his communication book looks like a victim of a water fight (open water bottle in side pocket is culprit) and announces AGAIN, that he was loud, loud, LOUD ALL 4 blocks again… have been trying to research, sw doc, rack my brain as to why sleeping  pretty ok equates to an ear piercing day? do we want little sleep and quieter days OR lotsa sleep ( or our version of lotsa sleep!) and loud, disruptive days…?

the frustrating thing for Korey is his inability to tell us and even answer our questions on what he is feeling or what is going on in his head, why the need for loud, why cant he sleep, actually anything that could help us help him. and if I am frustrated imagine how he feels!

we have done social stories, inside voice, whisper, pictures, pointing, mime, you name it, it is in our box of tricks! he tries to tell us and we try to decipher and understand… quietly.