I will keep this relatively short, I’m tired. But I know you will all be wondering how we are going and how particularly Cove went on our long, long journey.
13 hours to Los Angeles. Everything was awesome driving (through the terrible rain), Cove did keep saying he’d “decided to go home” – funny. Even at the airport, through all the waiting, checking in,security checks, etc.
Once we got close to the plane he did decide it was far too noisy and started to get very upset, we made our way to our seats and it took about ten minutes to calm him down. From there things went very well. He even fell asleep during take off! When we tried to move him he woke up and didn’t got back to sleep again, until much later when he had another pretty big meltdown, after which he then slept for a solid six hours until almost LA.
Again he was super awesome our whole time in LA. Again getting on the plane was an issue, he was holding on to the door of the plane not wanting to go in, but again after about 10/15 mins he was good as gold and this time only a five hour flight.
This is him crashed out in the car from JFK to our hotel in NY. A side point to that… when we got in the car and car started moving Cove got a bit freaked out and kept saying, “He’s run away, oh no, click in”. Until I realised that he was pointing at where the driver’s seat should be (in Australia) and thought no one was driving the car!!! Classic!
Seriously our trip could not have gone better with him. He has surprised us all, out to dinner, in Times Square, on the train to Massachusetts and the taxi to our Son-Rise home.
So now we are here and finished our second day of intensive training! Intensive is the word! But so is completely awesome and fantastic! The only down sides??? No snow!!! And no red wine! (no alcohol allowed at the Institute).
Cove is spending, between 8 and 9 hours a day in his play room. The child facilitators who work with him are an absolute joy to watch and I’ve learnt so much from them and from our classes already. Mostly what I’ve learnt has actually lifted a burden from my shoulders and is making working with Cove an absolute pleasure, even when he’s unhappy.
We walk ten minutes each way to the dining hall for breakfast and lunch, past beautiful frozen lakes and near frozen babbling brooks. There may be no snow right now, but you know -2 degrees is still verrrry cold to walk in!
More soon, thanks again to everyone for getting us here.
xoxoxo
Some photos…
Plane ride, airports, Cove…
New York…
Massachusetts and our Son-Rise house…
Oh our hotel in New York in between the Chrysler Building and next to Grand Central Station, the Grand Hyatt!
