An Exciting Invitation

Two weeks ago, Teddy brought home an envelope from his kindergarten class. It was an invitation for a birthday party. Let me make sure you understand: it was his first invitation to a friend's birthday. And it was a friend from his kindergarten class, not his class with other children with significant special needs. 

Teddy's first birthday party invitation to a friend's party.

I know AJ brought home several all-class or all-boy party invites, along with a few special friend party invitations, through the past two years. It's fairly common at this age to have entire classes invited to parties, although that sounds like a nightmare to me. Who wants that much crap from 20 kids who have no idea what your child likes? 

But this is notable for a few reasons. First, it means that Teddy is actually included in the kindergarten classroom enough that he was included, assuming the entire class was invited. Second, it means he was included, regardless of his differences because I cannot imagine that his classmates don't share about the boy who doesn't speak. 

Unfortunately, we were up north, so we couldn't attend. I say we because I would have had to supervise and support Teddy if he attended, which would have been interesting to say the least. But we had planned family photos up north, so that's where went with happy hearts that Teddy was included.

Let's be real: I would have been doing that move with Teddy at the party.

We managed a fairly normal family photo.