On Monday, the nice lady from Early Steps came to our house to evaluate DS and see if he really was behind/had the issues his former caregivers claimed he did. She came in and sat on our playroom rug with her notepad and laptop, while DS sat in my lap across from her. He was NOT thrilled about this stranger being in our house. He has been very hesitant about new people, and takes a while to warm up. She started by asking me a variety of questions....
"Does he recognize you all/his family as family members?"
"Does he react when your husband comes home from work?"
"How does he handle strangers?" (um...pretty much how he handled YOU. ha!)
"Does he like to read?"
"Does he play well with other kids?"
On and on. She brought out some toys and tried to get DS to play with her. THAT took a while. He would go grab the toy and run back to my lap. :) Eventually he did warm up to her though, and performed multiple assessment tasks way beyond his age "requirement". He even completed a few "36 month" tasks! Proud foster mom over here. She tallied his scores and homeboy scored OFF THE CHARTS in EVERY SINGLE CATEGORY!!! Delays?? What in the world. I knew this kid was perfectly fine :)
So, while there are some other tests/evaluations we need to have done (more medical, nothing else developmental), this was a huge answer to prayer, relief, and sign that we're headed in the right direction with DS, our sweet little redhead.
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