HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY, REXIE!!!!
Wyatt's forever friend turned one today. It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that we brought her home....
Oh wait, it WAS just a couple of weeks ago!
In any case, we celebrated her "happy barkthday" in style. She played the tracking game lots of times, did
amazing and earned BIG pieces of hot dogs (the only people food she is allowed and only presented as a treat for tracking!) We ate Blizzards in her honor. We vacuumed her. Okay, I know that probably sounds weird, but she really LOVES to be vacuumed. Really. We have this brush that hooks up to the hose thing and she is SO happy to be vacuumed she gets drooly. The drool is gross, but the fact that she rolls around like a big old 65 pound cat is hilarious.
Wyatt and she are spending more time together. This is a picture of homework time. She lays on him to help with the sensory overload factor. She wants to sleep with him, but we have to address the bed issue before she can get her wish. Wyatt sleeps in the lower trundle and has a single mattress. Rexie sleeps on the floor, as close as she can, to wherever Wyatt's head is. When we put him to bed, his head is toward the west, and so is Rexie. Upon awakening, he is NEVER west, and Rexie is wherever his head is. It is quite sweet. I think we are going to have to move he and Rexie on to a bigger mattress so they can continue their bonding process. We want Rexie to be attuned into Wyatt as closely as we can.
We just love this dog. Happy birthday, fuzzy girl. Here's to many more years together!
Rexie and Wyatt are going to Day Camp together. Here is a photo with Mrs. Cindy, who is Wyatt's speech pathologist and Carlee who is his assistant (and helps to handle Rexie.) They attend therapeutic camp three days per week for three hours per day. Rexie has been a gem with the other campers, who have a variety of DIF-abilities. Wyatt is one of the older campers, and this has been a really good way for him to take more responsibility of Rexie's handling. 
This is Wyatt in occupational therapy. Rexie has been doing pretty well staying in a "down" in the various therapies. We are learning many things regarding Rexie's and Wyatt's smooth transitions into the classroom setting and how to successfully facilitate that transition. We are preparing for the fall when they will attend school together. It seems that the best way for us to handle Rexie attending class will be to start small and build - so the two of them can both be successful!
