Thinking about Tony's graduation and Liam and Duchis' future graduation

You know, when I first thought about Tony's graduation from pre-K next Friday, I was sad to think that only one of my kids will be in the graduation that day and my other two kids will stay at home. BUT then, my mom told me to think that my kids are all different individuals; not because they are triplets they are meant to have the same experiences. Tony gets to experience a graduation from "Great Beginnings" and that night will be a day to CELEBRATE my wonderful, sweet, unique Tony. Then, in a few years, we will have a graduation for Duchis and Liam from their SonRise program, and that day we will definitely CELEBRATE having run a SonRise program for them with the help of all of you who come to teach them how fun it is to HAVE FRIENDS. Each kid will have their graduations at their own time :)

Speaking about my beautiful kids, look at these pictures from our last excursion to the beach! Liam was the star of the trip!

Cleaning up tip from Megan

One thing we saw Megan doing when playing with Liam is that when Liam moved to a new toy, Megan will bring the second toy down and then she would tell him "since we are not playing with the numbers anymore, I will put them up and you can ask me if you want to play with them again." He did not complain and let her put away the previous toy. This way, Liam's room was always pretty empty with just one toy on the floor. This helped Liam to stay focused, since he did not have several "stations" of toys on the floor to jump from one to the other. Plus, when he wanted something from teh shelf, he had to ask away, which gave him another chance to use his beautiful voice!  With Duchis this method could be harder, but we could still try it with stuff that she is not very attached to.

GREEN LIGHTS from Duch and Liam

I was reading Megan's outreach notes and I liked this reminder:

"It's very important for you to remember your timing with when to introduce something. Add when there are green lights,

1)Looking at you
2) Looking at what you're doing
3) Looking at the shelf
4) Touching you
5) Verbalizing.

When any of those happen THEN try something!"

Schedule of the Outreach with Megan

Hi everybody,


As a reminder for everybody, here is the schedule of the outreach with Megan:

April 30, 2010 Friday

9:00-11:30am Megan and Liam in the playroom
11:30-12:00pm Q&A session
12:00-1:00pm LUNCH with you in your home
1:00-3:00pm Megan and Liam in the playroom
3:00-4:00pm Observe and Feedback to Kaffie

May 1, 2010 Saturday

9:00-11:30am Megan and Dusya in the playroom
11:30-12:00pm Q&A session
12:00-1:00pm LUNCH with you in your home
1:00-2:00pm Megan and Dusya in the playroom
2:00-3:00pm Observe and Feedback to Maddi
3:00-4:00pm Observe and Feedback to Shelby

May 2, 2010 Sunday

9:00-10:00pm Observe and Feedback to Antonio
10:00-11:00pm Observe and Feedback to Mercedes
11:00-12:00pm Megan and mom and dad -Q&A session/Volunteer/Environment discussion
12:00-1:00pm LUNCH with you in your home
1:00-2:00pm Megan and mom dialogue
2:00-4:00pm Group Meeting Dusya and Liam/Brainstorm Games session

Ideas, Ideas, and more Ideas

Ladies,

We want to celebrate you for the great ideas many of you implemented in the last week! Keep doing it!

I know Kaffie played "queen" with Duch, and Antonio said Kaffie looked extremely elegant in her night gown, high heels and tiara and that Duch kept looking at her! Talk about eye power!

Mercedes really impressed me with her idea of mixing blocks and the dollhouse furniture with Liam! She constructed many rooms and put the furniture and Liam was putting the animals on the furniture! She also constructed a parking station for cars with blocks and Liam was parking the cars! So proud of Liam and Mercedes!

Duch has been taking initiative of what she wants to play. One day she kept telling me she wanted to play "silly pizza." I mentioned it to Kaffie and I know they had a wonderful time with the cardboard pizza and Kaffie cut confetti as cheese! Duchis loved it!

Another day, Duch told she wanted to "go to a party". First I thought she wanted to go potty, but she told me it was "PARTY", not potty. So, I asked her if she wanted to play birthday part or halloween party and she told me "I want to play food party". I thought "YES." I mentioned the idea to Maddi and I know they had a good time at their food party.

Speaking about Maddi, I loved her idea of using the cardboard pizza with Liam with the animals from the map we had constructed. So, Liam and Maddi had an animal pizza and Liam was involved in it.

Mercedes also tried today the weather game with clothes. I KNOW it has lots of potential and that Kaffie will want to try it, too.

These are just a few of the ideas I have heard from you all. Keep imagining, and keep trying. The kids will LOVE the new things. They will not always want to play the new game, but that's OK. The more we show them new things, the more they will be curious about it.

Some pictures from proud mommy

New round of homeopathy

Hi everybody,

We just started a new cycle of homeopathy, which will last 6 weeks. As you know, homeopathy is our method of detoxying our kids and healing their bodies. The healthier the body, the easier for them to learn new things.  As the body works towards healing, you have noticed that there are days when Liam and Duch look very tired or days when their eye contact goes down. In the past we have also had days with fevers, days with rashes, days with cold symptoms, days with crankiness, etc. These are all good reactions. We like reactions because they mean the body is working on getting rid of something bad. The next rounds of homeopathy are different from others we have done, so we just wanted to remind you that no matter how tired or uninterested Duch and Liam look for days or weeks, they have demonstrated to us that they always come back and usually they come back better.

So, if you are in the playroom, and Duch and Liam want to spend a lot of time with animals or books, here are some beliefs that SonRise tells parents and team members to keep in mind as we join them:

•  "I TRUST Liam and Duch to know exactly for how long and how often to ism".
• "I UNDERSTAND that Liam and Duch are climbing a huge mountain and need to rest on the journey in order to process all the new and challenging information".
• "I TRUST Liam and Duch are taking the time to get closer to loving and meaningful relationships with all the new friends he/she is making".
• "I BELIEVE that when Liam and Duch are ready, he/she will be with me again according to his/her pace, ready for the next level".
• "I WILL BE THERE FOR YOU as long as it takes, because I love and accept you no matter what".
• "Liam and Duch are DOING HIS/HER BEST to take care of themselves".