Our First Day At Ability Camp

What a first day we have had. Cassie's classes start at 0800 am sharp. The stretches that they do are working muscles that will for sure help Cassie. The parents are taught the stretches and must come every morning at 0800am to do the stretches. This way we will know the exercises perfectly once we come home we can continue to do them. Cassie will probably be stiff because she is really stretching and using muscles that are weak. These exercises are terrific and will help her with her weak affected side. Today's class all the children were together. The children were divded up at the end of the day and will be separted according to abilities. Cassie's new class will have four children. Cassie, 10 year old Dre, 12 year old Jessie and 9 year old Samuel. They are all ambulatory. Cassie and Jessie seem the highest functioning. Jessie has a seven year old brother back in Edmonton and Cassie misses her big sister badly. The two seem to have bonded and Jessie is great with Cassie. He is a very handsome boy. Braces, big brown eyes and he his preteen humour are auesome. Here are two pictures of Cassie and Dre. Dre brought his Oma to camp which is great as Cassie misses her Oma. They bonded well together yesterday as they were first to arrive.

Cassie has had tears a few times related to homesickness. Also the camp is such hard work but she has also had a lot of fun already and seems to be settling in. I will discuss Conductive Education more and try to take some pictures but the parents are not allowed in to class any more. We have to have our child's lunch made for 11:45 everday and we take turns with a cleaning schedule around the camp. We pick our child up at 2:00 everyday. Jessie and his mom want me and Cassie to go swimming with them. Jessie is an auesome swimmer and has one some medals. What an inspiration for Cassie and a great way for me to get to do my favourite exercise so I wont be out of shape when I return to my Master's club