First Day of School for Max - Aug. 20th 2013!

I cannot believe Max is 3 years old and officially started Pre-school this week! I had him in a toddler program last year, two mornings a week, which he loved. We moved to the suburbs of Chicago (Northbrook) to make sure now that Max graduated out of the state Funded(at 3 years old) Early Intervention, where he received all of his therapies, that he would still get those services. To do that, the school system where you live is required to take the kiddos in need of services into the school system at 3 years. For us, Chicago Public School after much investigation, was not where we felt comfortable for Max, so here we are, and Max could not be happier! He started in a summer program for 5 weeks, he was a little frightened...but by the end of the 5 weeks he was in love with his new school. We had our IEP meetings (Individual Education Plan) for Max and we received such amazing support from the NSSED program. (Northshore Special Education Dept)What an amazing group of people. So, long story short, Max had his first day of school and was sooooooo excited to be back! They have these White SUV's, called Septran's, which act as a bus and they pick Max up and drop him off every day in his very own car seat that they provided to us per Max's needs. The first couple of days, he was "kind" of happy to ride it...this morning, Friday, he saw the truck pull up and screamed at the top of his lungs that his bus is here! And ran outside to the truck, where his little classmate Joseph was already waiting in the truck (He had been on vacation from the summer, so this was the first morning Joseph was there). I opened the door, Max saw Joseph and screamed Joseph is here! And Joseph yelled excitedly, Hi Max!!! What a melt your heart kind of morning. Now, if only Terminex would show up during the allotted time slot to get rid of the bugs in our house, I would really be complete, LOL! They have 15 minutes left, why am I never the first slot EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)