How time flies!!!

I can't believe its been more than 2 months since i last updated. Well i guess having a new baby and not working (ie. not sitting infront of a puter for 8 hours a day), is a good excuse.





So Dylan was born on August 5 at 12:22am. He's been a good boy. He's now sleeping in nearly 6 hours stretches at night and that helps me feel human. I love having a baby in the house again and i wish he could just stay little. Then again i wish he'd change his own diapers too!





Emily is in grade 3 now. She's a very conscientious student and loves to read and write stories. She now wants to be an art teacher (last year was writer, year before was teacher). I have no doubt that she'll teach as well as do something creative. She's recently asked for an allowance so she now gets $10 per week for cleaning both bathrooms, as well as keeping her room clean and walking her sister to school if i can't get out the door on time. She's very strange for her age. The other day she asked her dad how much money he makes and always seems to worry if they'll be enough for whatever. It's strange because let's face it, my kids are spoiled brats. They get everything they want eventually.





Adrienne is now in senior kindergarten. I've decided to 'homeschool' her. She still goes to public school but i've decided that education here is sadly lacking so i've taken it upon myself to teach her to print and read. So we started printing our letters a few weeks ago. I figured it would save me grief if i made sure that she actually knew her letters before i started to teach her to read. Well holy crap she starts printing and her letters are backward. She confuses b and d, p and q, m and w, and i and l. Her numbers are backward too: 14 is written as 41. I spoke with her teacher and she said its too early to worry about it but this kid will be 5 next month, her shoes are always on the wrong feet, she doesn't know her right and left so i'm starting to think its more than that. I've read up on dyslexia and she does have alot of the signs, hopefully i'm just being paranoid and she'll figure it out.



Sean...oh where to start. His behavior has dramatically improved. He's potty training well...the first couple days were hell but he is peeing no problem. poo is a whole other story.
So we've been going to speech and practicing with him the last few month. His expressive language has improved by leaps and bounds. So i'm feeling pretty good when we had our assessment a few weeks ago. Right. He puked all over himself before the appt. (at home). We go there and he's just not answering the questions the ST is asking. So after about 10 minutes she gives up and starts talking about getting him tested to see if there are other issues that are impeding his speech. Somewhere in this spiel she throws out the word autism. That scares the shit out of me since my niece and nephew are both autistic and i tell her this. She quickly backtracks and says, no i don't think he's autistic....Well don't throw around diagnoses when you're not a doctor and you don't know what the fuck you're talking about!!!!
Okay, with that being the exception, the appt. was very informative because his receptive language (comprehension) is very low. So we've been spending at least a half hour a day sitting down with books, puzzles, games, whatever trying to teach him. This is in addition to everything we do being a learning experience...what color is the juice, what color is the garage door, higher/lower at park, what is this, what is that. I think he is making a little bit of progress.
Next appt is on friday so we'll see how it goes. If anything they'll give me a list of dr. that do testing in this area....