Well, I wasn't sure what to expect, but I certainly didn't expect what happened.  Speech therapy went well, Spencer was excited to see Amy and had fun playing.  Rachel let me observe for a good amount of time before she just got too bored and we had to return to the lobby.

So we headed off to the school for Spencer's preschool screening.  I was a mess, even driving the speed limit because we were so early, there was no need to rush.  So we got there 15 minutes early and our neighbor/kindergarten teacher greeted us almost immediately.  We hung out, me trying to keep the kids from disrupting the classes in progress until they told us to go to a room down the hall.  It seemed odd that no one had come to greet us, but I tried not to take it as ominous and headed down the hall.  We walked into a preschool classroom to see three women sitting at a child sized table towards the back.  The could not possibly have looked more like a panel of judges.  I tried to introduce myself, but was politely told to wait and we would get to that in a moment.  One woman (who's name was rattled by me so fast I didn't even catch it - but I think she was the actual teacher) immediately started to go through some standard testing with Spencer as he sat next to me.  The school psychologist started asking me the usual questions and the speech therapist dove into the paperwork I had brought from our speech therapist.

We were there for about an hour.  And it was awful.  I was on the defensive pretty much the entire time.  I felt like it was us vs. them for absolutely no reason.  They just kept plowing through information, never asking if I had any questions, never bothering to check if I was taking in everything, their eyes glazing over when I tried to explain something.  They made absolutely no attempt to find out if I have any clue about things like OT, but talked about it right in front of me like I couldn't possibly have an informed opinion.  When I did ask a question I got the standard non-answers and tap dancing, but I don't know WHY!!!  Honestly, my first experience on the parent side of the public school system was not very reassuring.  So we have to go back for another evaluation - which I guess I should have seen coming -  in a week or so.  Maybe that will be more positive.  I hope so.  Maybe we'll look into private preschool regardless.

And poor Mike, it's his birthday and I had to call him all upset and trying not to cry after we left.  Oh well, we are home now, Spencer doesn't seem to keen on going to sleep so I think I let him go outside and play.  It's really nice out.