Apparently....

Mike and I are not failures at parenting. Go figure. We actually have done things right with Daniel and he has apparently become age appropriate in his development - all the way around - speech included.

Though we suspected Daniel would not qualify and thus not receive special services from our school district as he is aging out of early intervention through our county, it still strikes us as pretty humorous that the one "test" we needed and wanted him to fail, he hit the ball out of the park. Just so you know, in our school system, if you qualify for special services, the child would receive pre-school services through the school district for free and the "hunt" for the right pre-school would never take place. And as a side note - who knew that you had to find and enroll your child for pre-school in September by FEBRUARY!

And leave it to Daniel to show off to the evaluators by speaking in complete sentences, be on his best behavior, zip up his fleece and coat and let everyone at the table know he was done with the evaluation and "We Go Home Now."

Now we are not looking for compliments or anything. We certainly did not get here by ourselves. We had a lot of help from amazing people and we are truly blessed that they came into our lives when they did and we are grateful for knowing them. It just amazes us to think that even on those days when we think we are doing a horrible job; am the worst parents in the world and Daniel is not going to be ready for Kindergarten, the kid proves us wrong. God help us if this is an omen of what lies ahead for us. And it is crazy to think that those words "we are all in agreement that Daniel is age appropriate" would resonate in our ears. CRAZY!

P.S. - Daniel "enrolled" himself in a pre-school this morning as he had to hand in the paperwork and first "tuition" payment.