Parents night out!

Gabriel's school is hosting another parents night out tonight. The therapists will watch the kids enrolled in the school and their siblings, so the parents can have a 3 hours date worry free!! Me and hubby haven't decided what to do in 3 hours yet, but if will sure include a meal somewhere without the requirement of a playground or coloring menus to entertain the children lol

We already had one and was back in January....as much as we enjoyed, was with much horror that we come home from it and found the eviction note in our mail. So call me paranoid, as much as I'm happy to go out tonight, I'm very worried about what I will wake up to tomorrow.

But I try to keep it positive.

And on that positive note, I thought it would be nice to share some progresses that Big G (as we call Gabriel now) had made in the past weeks:
♥ He was telling me a story about a book he read at school. I didn't know that story, but he saying made perfect sense. When I brought him to school, he runs to pick up the book to show it to me and starts reading to me. Now his reading and comprehension it's nothing really new, but he's ability to memorize and summarize a story and being able to explain it in a way that made sense to another human being totally is. His growing interest in something that is not a video game is also very encouraging.
♥ He accepted bacon, turkey bacon and a little bit of steak introduced in his diet. He even tried (all by himself) celery and accepted to eat strawberries with his sister.
♥ He made the most cute ceramic tile for my husband for Father's day (I will be sure to make a post about it).
♥ Yesterday when our neighbor nephew stopped by to play with him and offered him a lollipop, he smiling accepted it without retrieving and making a disgusted face. He enjoyed the candy and then engaged appropriately in a hide-and-seek game involving Michelle too.
♥ Picking him up from school, he made me a small red paper heart and wrote "I love you mommy" that simply melted my heart.
♥ He also accepted to get back to soccer games even after the ball in the face he took last fall.

Gabriel's update

I thought to write about what's going on on Gabriel's world since it's been a while that I did that.

My followers know that he started a new school at the beginning of January. He did miss one week because of a cold, so he just completed his third week in this new school today.

We already started to see few little changes here and there and I can tell Gabriel is much happier and thus healthier.

Of course, there is still room to grow, but it's so much better compared to the drama and destruction that was going on before Christmas.

I'm so proud of my little guy, for all the efforts he's making and all the changes he had to endure and his teachers are too (yup he has a whole team working on him!)

And I can't even start to describe the sense of relief and safety that we all feel, knowing that we are all working in the same direction and in the same path, at school and at home......simply priceless.

Plus tomorrow we are going to have a Parents night out.....do you know how long it's been since me and hubby had a night date??? Well, if you please tell me, 'cause I can't remember!