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Health and Potty Training . . . Kinda

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Thanks for all emails asking how Madison was. She’s actually doing fine now. I was right. Her keytones were pretty high and as soon as I got them in check, she was her normal annoying self. Something I will be asking the doctor when we got for her year old checkup (when I get around to scheduling it) is when I can let her go to school and when I should keep her home based on her keytone levels.

And on the potty training front. Well, something weird has happened with Will. Really weird. Bill and I were seeing who could be more stubborn. We were out of diapers and neither of us wanted to run and get new ones. That means, yesterday, Will got stuck in pullups because I had no other diapers. This is where the weirdness comes in. Will could sit in a wet diaper all day and not have it bother him. However, as soon as he pees in the pullups, he takes it off, and goes and grabs a new one. However, he won’t sit on the toilet (or the potty chair). I’m not quite sure what to make of this.

That’s the updates on the home front.

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Early Intervention

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

I question I seem to be getting a lot lately is how Early Intervention has been working for Will. All I can say is that it is amazing. I am so glad I pushed to get him into this program, because everyone has noticed a change with him. Before, Will wasn’t even trying to talk. Instead, he’d point and grunt, and if you couldn’t figure out what he wanted, he turned into a pile of screaming 2 year old. It was frustrating for everyone involved.

Now, he talks. Granted, we may not understand all of it. However, we can make out a lot of it. He is using phrases. He is able to communicate. Bill’s brother (who is I think 22 or 23) even noticed a change in Will. That’s what is so wonderful about nipping this speech problem right away instead of waiting. I had a lot of people tell me that he wasn’t behind, and he’d talk when he wanted too. Well, he did talk when he wanted — he just had a little help.

Now, we still are no where near where he needs to be, but by adding just a few more words and getting him wanting to communicate has made a huge difference here.

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Wordless Wednesday: School

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

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Early Intervention – Week 1

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Early intervention came in on Tuesday for our first appointment. I’ll be honest — I had no idea what to expect. The only thing I knew going into it was that our therapist’s name was Lisa (I know, pretty easy for me to remember). I have to say that I think it went well.

The first visit was just to get Will to warm up to her. He thought she was cool, because she came with a bunch of toys. However, he wouldn’t let her touch him at all, and he made sure we knew he was in control of the session by walking out several times.

She told me he’s very smart, and that sometimes means it’ll take longer to talk, because they are too smart for their own good. I can tell you that is case here. He has compensated so well with everything else; he really has no need to talk. Hence, why we are where we are. He does mimic well. That means he’ll say the word at therapy, but the question is if he actually retains any of it. So far, we haven’t.

This will probably be a long process and we’ll just have to take it one word at a time. . .

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A Potty We Will Go . . .

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

How things can change in a week is amazing. My little boy had no interest at all in the potty. None, whatsoever. What we had learned with Madison was not to push it, and they are ready when they are ready. We’ve had the potty chair pulled down since he was 18 months. No interest at all. However, yesterday, he wanted to sit on the potty. 3 times! Now, granted, I don’t think he actually went (but he was definitely trying!). I even ran the water hoping to help him go, but it didn’t work. With Madison, we had to bribe her to even sit on the toilet, so we are keeping our fingers crossed for Will here.