i am not going to speech today!!!!

After school, SJ had his first "outside" speech appointment today.  Outside speech is the same speech that we attend in the summer.  SJ has "inside" speech at school.  It was a beautiful day and there were tons of kids outside playing.  I dropped off Bob at a neighbor's house.  As we drove away, SJ burst into tears.  He started telling me to turn around.  He wanted to go home for "just a couple of minutes".  I knew if we went home A.  We would be late and B. He wouldn't want to get back in the car.  I continued to drive to the speech place while SJ continued to cry and yell.  SJ was yelling that it was not fair.  He didn't want to have speech twice in the same day.  I asked him if he saw his speech therapist at school today and he just replied that he did not know.  I kept trying to calm him down while we were headed to speech.  He was having none of it.  When we arrived, he didn't want to get out of the car.  He said, "I am not going in.  It is not fair.  No speech on Thursdays.  Cancel it, Mom.  Please cancel it."  I told him to dry his eyes and we were going in.  After a moment or so, SJ got out of the car.  We entered the building and SJ hid under a chair.  Fortunately, no one else was in the waiting room.  Otherwise, I would have been extremely embarrassed.  His therapist came out and he said to her, "I don't like speech on Thursdays!"  She told him they had a little work to do and then they would play a game.  I told her sorry.  She smiled at me and said it was okay.  Thirty minutes later, he came out in a totally different disposition.  He was no longer sad.  In fact, he was quite happy.  I unlocked the car so that he could get in.  She told me that he settled down after a few minutes.  They worked on synonyms.  He did very well on that and she seemed pleased.  They also worked on sequencing. He did fairly well describing what happened when he was shown visuals.  He had some trouble when he had to describe what was happening when the middle step was eliminated.  She gave us a worksheet on this, which will be his homework.  I spoke to his school speech therapist today and sure enough he did have "inside" speech Thursday morning.  She said he did fine with her that morning.  I told her this story and she said she couldn't switch days.  I will just tell SJ that he will get both speech sessions out of the way in one day.  Maybe that will satisfy him?  Hopefully, it will.