So Proud (and breif incident with mom)

So K got his assignment for his big project of the year and it was to build a castle and then be able to tell details about his castle.  We got all the supplies for the project and were going to take the weekend to build it.  I know that he has trouble staying on task and would need multiple breaks so we figured we would take all of saturday and sunday to work on this.  Then mom throws a wrench into the plans stating that brothers' GF and her daughter would be coming out on saturday and brothers GF was thinking of going to watch her mom play baseball while mom watched her daughter (4 year old highly active little girl).  I was very upset about this as that would be one massive distraction for K and I knew we would be getting no work done while they were there.  Turns out they were running out of clothes and needed to do laundry so mom went in early on saturday to pick up their laundry and worked on it thoughout the day.  She did finally admit that she wasn't thinking and that I was 100% right about K and too many distractions while doing the castle.

So between Saturday morning and Sunday evening we made a concentric castle that with working drawbridge and front gate that we were all very proud of.  Then came the harder part... writing up a speech for K to give to hsi class!!  K has very bad short-term memory because of the issues he has so we knew automatically that there was no way he whould be able to memorize a speech so we were going to have to write one up that he could read to his class.  He did really well making it though, I typed while he pointed out all the parts of the castle, what they were for and what he made them out of.  It took very little time as he was very comfortable with the material he was talking about.  So we printed it off, put in cues as to when he was supposed to point to something and that was that.

Fast forward to Wednesday night when mom and I were working the book fair at his school.  His teacher came in and pulled mom aside to tell her that she knew we were very busy (an understatment!!!) but she just had to tell her that K was excellent with his project.  She said other classes came into the gym to see all the castles and ask the kids questions and many said that they liked his castle.  Then she went around and when she got to him she confessed that she just kept asking questions until she could trip him up.... except she couldnt as he answered every single question perfectly!!  She was so proud of him and knew that we would be as well.  We don't have a final grade for it yet but just the fact that he was so comfortable with the material and did so well, the grade doesnt really matter.  He did more than his best and that is what counts in this family and especially with him!