This a.m. Mite(9) got up a little late as last night was the last night to stay up late before school starts back tomorrow.

He came downstairs fully dressed in a dress shirt button wrong TWICE (lower half wrong, middle button right, top half wrong), jeans on BACKWARDS with the zipper facing the back. Underwear apparently only lifted up one leg (I discovered this when helping him rearrange later). Two different pairs of socks...with a different one on top of each different foot -- black one over white on left and white one over left on right.

His hair, which I now swear has dyspraxia, too, was sticking up all over the place. He still had the red, wrinkle imprint on his cheek from sleeping on that side.

I laughed when I saw him and told him to go look in the mirror. He laughed too, but then got somber and said, "But Momma sometimes it just seems too complicated to get all this stuff on right. It's like it's just made to torment my tired, dyspraxic mind."

I laughed again. He needs to see the funny side of things and to understand how things he says sounds cute and funny sometimes. He giggled, too.

I helped him rearranged his attire and he looked presentable, but it was a funny moment for a few seconds. Then the reality of how it bothers him came back.

It was sooooo cute, though.

Here is a funny 2E story regarding my 12 yo daughter (remember 2nd percentile for phonological discrimination).

I had to run to the church (Catholic school) to deliver her stole for her school’s honor society today. She called from a classmate’s cell phone to request I bring it by 9am. I walked into the church through a side door in clear view of a packed crowd and the priest at 8:40 wearing my gym clothes and sheepishly asked a classmate to pass it to her. Apparently the mass began at 8:30.

The 2E part: Students are eligible for honor society from 6th though 8th grade. Our daughter was inducted last year as a 6th grader. The current honor society members are required to induct the new members during a special ceremony each year. She told me last night that she would need to remember her stole because they were going to “abduct” new members today. I told her that the correct word was “induct”, but she argued with me and told me, “Well, that is not was Mr. _____ called it”. I had to prove it to her by looking the word up.

Also yesterday, my son used the word paraplegic only he pronounced it “parafalegic”. I had to tell him there was no “f” in the word and we practiced pronouncing it several times. I was in sixth grade before I learned that “bally ball” was really “volley ball”.

Amazingly they test very high for vocab skills, spelling is another issue.