Aqil's Graduates Pre-School! 🎓

He was supposed to enter Primary One last year but we'd wanted him to be in a special needs school as recommended by his doctor. 

Hence he continued another year at EIPIC Centre as we waited for a place in a SPED sch. 

And this year...he finally graduates frm EIPIC Centre. There's no way we can extend any longer. 

His graduation fell on the same day as my sista's wedding. We were contemplating whether to attend his graduation concert or not. But since he will be leaving EIPIC Centre for sure...and he had a few lines to say in his class performance, we decided to sneak away from the wedding for a bit for our lil king's graduation concert. 

Upon reaching the venue, his teacher took him to change his T-shirt. I was as usual all excited to snap away & record his performance...I had even created an album in my FB to post all the pics of his graduation concerts.

However, that album only contains a pic of me, husband & Aqil. At the start of the concert, audiences were told that we could snap as many pics as we want & record as many videos as we want but we're not allowed to post them on any social media...except for pics of our own child. 

Hence the empty album. Of course I still went snapping & recording away coz I need to keep this beautiful memories of him.

It was a very beautiful concert. The kids were so so so innocent. Their performances were not anywhere perfect but they were the most beautiful performances that I couldn't believe I'd teared. 

All the classes were accompanied by their teachers...and almost every child has a teacher with them and that includes Aqil.

Our lil king was so excited during his class performance that he was flapping away! 😍

We are so proud of him...he was so cool when he said his lines...even his teacher was proud of him too! 

Just before his class performance, a drawing was shown on the screen. A drawing with four names & one of the name was 'Aqil'. I'd thought nothing of it...I thought it was super nice of his teacher to do the drawing coz only his class had that drawing....until the teacher messaged & told me abt the pic. 😱

And his proud Mama, ME, took the effort to crop the vid of his performance coz his Mama wants everyone to see how well he'd performed for his part & how proud she felt then! 😍

http://youtu.be/K22uuPrp1MU

Sensory World of Autism

Yesterday, we had an advance birthday celebration for eldest sis & Ariq (16&18 Nov respectively). Since 3 of us sistaz are down  with exam fever (one even had a paper yesterday) & an upcoming wedding, we decided to hv a meet-eat-cut cake kind of thing. 

So before the dinner, we ensured Aqil was fed first...he had both chicken rice & McD fries yesterday. 

Upon arrival he was fine...running around the place...watching YouTube as usual. 

As we were greeting each other (Muslims kiss the hand of the older ones), Aqil went "there's so many people" coz he had to go around greeting his aunties & uncles...hehe! And once the food was served, he started screaming & ran off! Haha! His sensory sensitivity took place...😁

Of course we had to run after him & got him to sit by the side whereby the food was out of his view. 

But the place he was seated was along the path to the restroom...and so he kinda 'blocked' the way of those who wanted to go to the restroom. Our poor lil king...😁

Thus we grabbed a chair so that he wouldn't be able to spread his legs & it was much more comfortable for him actually. 😉

Alhamdulillah...this lil king with full tummy was happy & comfortable with his seat & occupied with YouTube! 

With that, we were able to enjoy dinner & cake-cutting & opening presents...thank you lil king! 😍

In fact...I realised that he wasn't in any of the pics we took. Hence, the last few family pics...we made sure he was in...hehe! 👍🏼

Thank you Ya Rabb...for everything...😘