Archive for January, 2007

Some results

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Brandon – had his hearing test today and aced it. He did a fantastic job of raising his hand when he heard the beep, and of repeating the words he heard. Yay, Brandon! His hearing is normal. On to a speech evaluation we go…Christian – got a call from the teacher, and she has scheduled an ‘intake meeting’ to determine where Christian is and the best things to do to help him succeed in school. This meeting will be 2/8 and it will be us, his teacher, his math teacher, the counselor, the nurse, and a support person. The great news is that they pulled him for a reading test today and he’s testing at a 2nd grade level… an improvement from the first testing this school year that put him at a 1st grade level! Yay, Christian!

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Alyson’s milestone and fun stuff

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Little miss independent now theoretically sleeps in a big girl bed. Actually, her crib converted into a day bed and she chose to sleep on the floor by Christian’s bed instead of in the bed. Christian said she was actually in her bed when he woke up this morning, so she must’ve moved over sometime during the night. This afternoon at nap, she fell asleep in the hallway. So far we haven’t needed a baby gate, but I imagine that time will come.Other fun ‘Aly-facts’ 🙂
She now recognizes the letter ‘A’, takes the ‘A’ magnet off the fridge, holds it to her chest and says, “Me!”.
She throws away garbage, hangs up her coat, and says Please and Thank you better than her brothers!
She also understands complex statements. Today I told her that her cup was in the bathroom (perfectly logical place for it when you’re 2, I guess). I asked her to go get her cup from next to the sink in the bathroom, and I could see the little wheels turning in her head as she went and got it 🙂
She LOVES going to the nursery at church. It’s a pretty hard word to say, but we hear her say nursery all the time.
She enjoys helping in the kitchen and is very good at setting silverware and (plastic) plates.

I think that’s it for my list for now.

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Custom List: Prayer List

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Prayer List

  • For usThat my business will be able to pick up the difference when I leave Orrtax July 1. That we’ll stay sane through this chaos!
  • For ChristianThat we’ll be able to find some tools to help him succeed in school and in life.
  • For BrandonThat he will open up to his speech therapist and participate. That his speech (and accompanying self confidence) will improve.
  • For AlysonThat she’ll stay the sweet, brilliant, calm child she is!

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Quick updates

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Christian – is on the list to undergo complete educational testing. In the meantime, I got a book about ADD Nutrition which has a 30 day dietary plan for kids with attention issues, and we’re going to give that angle a try. We’re still trying any tactic we can come up with to try to help him and there have definitely been really good days and really bad days.Brandon – is going for a hearing test Wednesday and meeting with a speech therapist soon for evaluation and therapy. Now that he’s in preschool, he’s getting really frustrated with not being understood by his peers. We’ll have his preschool conference Feb 2 or Feb 9, so it’ll be interesting to see how that goes. He completely shut down at school the other day because his teacher didn’t get him something he asked for… not sure if he asked too quietly, wasn’t clear, or it was just a bad time, but he spent the entire remainder of the class face down on the floor and even declined snack. That and shyness has become the norm for him lately, so I’m anxious to get him some help. I did get him the very last spot in Full Day Kindergarten for Fall yesterday.

Alyson – is out-shining her brothers at the moment. She’s certainly having her ‘two’ moments complete with blood-curdling screams, but overall she’s an extremely happy, independent child. She loves puzzles and coloring and her new Dora castle and is enjoying learning letters and colors and shapes already. She is WAY clearer than Brandon is, speech-wise, which is really eye-opening.

Me? Barely keeping head above water. Selfishly want a foot or two of snow to fall tonight so I can stay home and get some work done. Several client files on my desk to wrap up. Lots of overtime at work (it’s beyond awful there right now – the stress is through the roof and on to the moon). I SO can’t wait to leave there. Have I mentioned I was insane enough to volunteer to be on the Board of Directors for our local Thrivent chapter? I’m the communications director. Poor Bill will probably have to help me improve the website. At least he’s staying sane through all of this (although he has a recording gig next week!).

Breathe in….. Breath out…. and go rescue dinner 🙂

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