more praise for Calvin

This weekend was the big ward fundraiser dinner. All the youth had to be there two hours early to help set up and then throughout the evening were asked to help serve food, etc.  We dropped off Calvin at 3 and we had to go to the girls piano recital.  For the actual dinner Dave and I went to a wedding so dan brought the girls over after piano. (It was nice to have Dan here for a quick one day trip. He came down with a couple of "friends" for a wedding. I assumed those friends were boys. We were super surprised when Sat morning a couple of girls came upstairs!)

Anyway, Sun morning I got a call from my friend Julie Parrish who is the YW president and was overseeing the setup. She said Calvin was her best worker, stayed on task the entire time, and was a pleasure to work with. I appreciated the phone call and told Calvin about it so he would know that I heard back that he had done a great job. The girls also told me he was the server for their table and did a good job with that.

Dave often picks up cookies to bring to deacons quorum. This week when he went to get cookies Calvin said he also wanted to get some cookies for his class.  After they finished checking out, Calvin gave Dave $4 to cover the cost of the cookies for his class! What a sweet boy! Calvin attends Jo's primary class of CTR 4's. They kids adore him. He is very sweet with them. He always attends primary 2nd hour and for 3rd hour sometimes he goes to deacons quorum but often stays with the 4 year olds.

Calvin has been doing really well for a few months.

About 6 months ago,  on Dr. Max's recommendation (dr. max is our amazing neuropsychiatrist that we've been sing for several years) I started going to a therapist to help set up a behavior plan. Since Calvin has been doing so well at school for a long time it was apparent that it was the home cs. school environment that made the difference. Dr. Max felt that with some coaching on how to do a behavior plan we could make big improvements at home.  I started seeing Dr. Robin Stutzman. She helped me plan a behavior chart for Calvin, helped teach me how to talk to Calvin and the other girls when problems arise. A couple of times I took Calvin with me to chat with her so that he could give feedback about what was working for him and so that he could hear us talk about what a good job he was doing. It was very helpful.  Dr. Max keeps moving up and up on my list of favorite drs we have ever seen!  I always leave his appointments hopeful that we can make improvements.