after school speech part 11

My, oh my, angry SJ was back on Thursday!  When I told him it was a speech day, he started sobbing on the way home from school.  As soon as we got home, he ran into the house and right up to the playroom.  I told him not to get involved in anything long, because we were leaving in 10 minutes.  Did he listen to me?  Of course not!  He started playing Mario Cart Wii.  When it was time to go, he started yelling that he wasn't going.  "Maybe tomorrow," he yelled down the stairs.  I yelled back, "No, speech isn't tomorrow.  Speech is today.  Now let's go!"  He stomped down the stairs to the main floor and then down the stairs into the basement.  I reminded him to get his coat on.  He yelled that he wasn't cold.  (I guess 30 degrees isn't cold to SJ!)  "Too bad,” I said. "Put your coat on!"  More stomping and then I heard the car door slam. 

Then he proceeded to cry and whine for 10 minutes of the 30 minute drive.  Give me strength, I thought.  Thank goodness for the IPad.  He started playing a game on it, which settled him down.  We were two minutes late (pretty normal for us) and he ran right in.  He said, "Where is she?"  I said, "She will be out soon."  He asked to go to the bathroom, so I told him to go.  She came out to the reception area 30 seconds later and asked where SJ was.  "Bathroom," I replied.  She said she was going to try to finish the testing after he came out of the bathroom.

When his session was done, she said he completed most of the test.  He only has two more questions to complete.  She said she would be out next week, so her substitute will finish the testing.  He has had this sub before and he likes her.  She assigned him some Why questions for homework.  I have already asked him a couple.  He seemed to answer them easily, but maybe I just picked easy questions.  Hopefully next week there will be a lot less crying, whining and yelling!