The Otte's

Another Wednesday, another dance class, here she is with Suzanne, who is her therapist and she is amazing.  In the forground is another dance teacher!  I thought I was going to have to have a talk with Quinn after class, as she was not following directions and driving all over the place, and finally Suzanne asked her why she was not following directions, and she raised her hands in the air, and her chair kept driving, so she was driving it with her tummy, as her joystick had come loose and fell into her tummy, and that is why she was driving so crazy!  Oh I love how she let Suzanne know that she was not being naughty, and needed help moving her joystick back!

Next Thursday is a day you can hear our story again!  A few years ago, we were granted a Christmas Wish from B107.3, and were nominated by our friends Virginia and her family, as well as our friend Erin.  Well now they are replaying some of them, with updates, like a where are they now piece.  Here is the email I got from Gina -

Hi Susan:

Just wanted to give you the “heads up” that your  Christmas Wish and update story will air next week --

Thursday, December 13^th at 7:15am. It will repeat during the day at 10:15am, 2:15pm and 6:15pm.

It will then be placed on our website at B1073.com.

Thanks again for sending us such a great update story!

Happy Holidays!

Gina & Joe

So you can listen to it a few different ways!  If you are in Lincoln listen to B107.3, or go to the website and listen to it live or you can click to hear it anytime you want, or there is a free B107.3 app as well.  So check it out if you can!  It was a wonderful moment full of happiness and love, and we are so grateful for the experience.  They surprised me at school, as I was presenting on what I do in the art room.  So listen up if you can.

The website is: http://www.b1073.com/ 

Our other story for the week:  

We went to Omaha for a regular trach doctor appointment, and when I picked up Quinn from school, it was her first day back after being sick for 3 days, and our nurse told us how Quinn was mobbed when they went into the classroom.  I've said it over and over how I love her teachers and her class, as Quinn is accepted with open arms by all of them.  Well, I got to see it for myself, because her classmates were walking by our van going into school after recess, and they were bending over as far as they could, shouting at Quinn to have a good time at the doctors and how they would see her tomorrow, and how they were glad she was feeling better!  Oh, that made my heart so happy!  It was wonderful!  I have to say that the two of us are going to develop complexes, as an art teacher, I get those warm happy hello's at school from all the kids, and now seeing how Quinn does to, we need to be careful not to expect that everywhere!  But boy are we lucky to be loved at our own schools!

So on our way to see Dr. Sewell, we talked about how he really wanted to see her use her dynovox last time, but that did not happen because she slept through the entire appointment.  Well she showed off like crazy.  So now if we have any doctors doubting how smart she is, we can have a doctor back us up.  So when he entered our room, he asked Quinn if she would show him how her dynovox works, and did she ever. She showed him her friends page, and told him hello, he answered back hello, and she asked him how he was, and he answered back that he was fine, but how was she, he heard she had a cold, so she told him she was not so good, and he started laughing, telling her he was sorry she was not good, but was so glad to see how well she could communicate!  She went on to tell him she was ok.  Then he checked everything out, and I had to talk to Quinn about how she needed to listen and not talk for a few minutes.  So she was patient, and then finally asked, all done?  He said not yet, and after he was done, he looked at Quinn and said, now we are done, so she continued to click all done as we walked down the hall and all the way out to the car.  Oh I love her and I love how she is really communicating with other people now.  What a great day!