Interesting little exchange with a neighbor.  He son is a great wee kid but also suffers from some social skills issues - he is slightly autistic.  Generally Aaron and Joey play pretty well together but it ended rather badly last time.  Hence the exchange below between Anne and the Mum.
 

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry, right?  They said hi outside today.  Glad Izzy is feeling better.  Would you be able to have Jess from 9-11 Thursday?  I was supposed to be in Arron's classroom but it's no big deal to cancel.  Let me know what you think...

xxx

On Mar 18, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Gery Juleff <gjuleff@hotmail.com> wrote:

Izzy seems to be over whatever bug she had. Fingers crossed she's OK tomorrow. We'll definitely get them back together soon. It's not surprising they run into the occasional difficulty when one has trouble verbalising and the other can't read nonverbal cues!Joey thought the play date was going great until Arran announced that he wanted to go home. Our work is cut out for us but I think when the weather improves and they can play outside they'll be fine.

We'll talk soon and let's aim for Friday morning for Isabela and Jess.

Anne

 

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From: xxxxx
Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:16:59 -0400
To: gjuleff@hotmail.com

Oh Hi Anne!  I didn't see these til now and thanks for both messages.  I came to email you to see how the meeting went... sorry it got cancelled.  Please let me know when you get it rescheduled and I'll hopefully be free to watch the kids.  Maybe it's best for the breather... I also feel so badly Arron blew up at the boys' playtime.  I also hope they can put it behind therm.  It's so tough when two kids without a complete set of social skills between them have a dispute; neither knows how to handle it.!!! We'll talk more off line and plot a regroup for them.  Hope Izzy feels well soon and no one else gets it!  Think Friday am, perhaps?

xxxx

On Mar 18, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Gery Juleff <gjuleff@hotmail.com> wrote:

xxx

In the end the meeting was canceled because both Isabela and the principals had a stomach virus. Poor Izzy threw up twice this morning and she's now passed out. I changed the care plans because I was worried about my two misbehaving and disrupting Kevin's phone call at 11:00. Isabela had been very whiney and sensitive the last two days (I now know why) and I was worried that Joey might be agitated in your house after the dispute. If he hadn't had a phone call it would have been fine but I didn't want to risk it. Besides, without Jess around, playing with Lynedon would have been more fun for Izzy and Joey can certainly be home alone if there is a next door neighbour around.

Let's try to do something later this week if Izzy's up for it.

Anne