I have one. DD has started pooping, and just like the Dr said, has immediately stopped wetting the bed! She’s on Day 6 waking up dry and she’s never been dry more than 3 nights in a row in her entire life.
I’m so happy! This weekend we are going to try sleeping without a pull-up. We have some bed pads, so we will use one of those.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Oct 11, 2018 8:46:35 GMT -5
DS' teacher called to "check in" on Friday (did I post about it? I can't remember) and said that he's ahead in reading and language and on track in math. She also said he's doing well socially. I'm very happy. The tutoring is really working.
A kid made a comment when I dropped her off that DD is so cute b/c she's 4 and still talks like a baby. She's actually 4.5. The kid is right....Is there any way this is within the realm of normal and she doesn't need speech therapy? We've been to speech therapy with her (twice - once for several months she was around 1 year old, and then again When she was 2-3 ) and I seriously did not ever see much improvement.
mustardseed2007- what do you mean by “talks like a baby”? Like lisps? Or doesn’t enunciate? Some things require speech therapy and some are just terrible habits. Like DS talks almost under his breath, so he’s hard to understand. When we make him talk more loudly, he’s clear as can be. In any event, an evaluation of speech and hearing would be a good idea.
I didn't fall off the obstacle course yesterday and Ds found 2 shirts and a pair of shoes he seemed acceptable to put on his body. Dd talked he way into another pair of Converse. Ended fall break family day with family movie night Hotel Transylvania.
I think I have spoke off how over the top my mom was during my niece and nephews visit this summer. She's at it again because they are coming for Christmas. She is saying that my kids will come to her house during break to practice Christmas carols for after Christmas dinner. No. A. You don't make plans for other people. It is our break to and we get to do what we want. B. We are not making plans 3 months in advance. C. They are 13 and 15 and don't want to.
She also told my kids to tell me to cancel our vacation plans to the beach because she is looking at Cabins in Gatlinburg. A. You don't get to tell grown ass people what to do. B. Your ability to dictate vacation ended when I was 18, but we never went on any . C. Yearly vacation is important to us. D. We want to go to the beach. E. Most importantly, last time we went to Gatlinburg as a family, you stiffed my brother and I on the cabin and didn't tell us so when we got there we had to make up the extra $600.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Oct 11, 2018 9:00:46 GMT -5
mommyatty, She talks very fast and does not enunciate. If you are not intently focused on what she's saying, she sounds like she's babbling like a baby does when it doesn't know how to talk but is copying other people. In reality if she slows down you'll hear that she does make sense, but she is also doing some things that (from being in speech therapy) I know are not uncommon through age 7 like w for r and saying lellow etc. She still says Gonana for banana (I have no idea what that is about) and some other weird things like that.
I guess my feeling is that if we did have her evaluated, she would qualify for it. I just don't have faith that therapy is going to help. But that's kind of silly to assume I guess.
mustardseed2007, same question as mommyatty, on what do you mean by talks like a baby? We have had two kids in phonology since they turned three. We didn't see improvement when DD1 talked until she was about five. She could make the sounds independently but couldn't break the habits when she talked. She's now in 1st and is at 80-90% of her goals and we hope this is her last year of it. It is so important to start at an early age. The program might be different now that she's three as well. At least it is in our State.
I have seen my mom every day for weeks. Yesterday I went over to sharpie her name on her linens before housekeeping comes today. She was being a little odd - then she walked me out. I was keeping her from a cheese tasting but she knew I had 20 minutes between work and hair to pop by so she was too polite to say.
You guys. My mom. Is antisocial. And she went to a cheese tasting. Late. She’s been going to all kinds of things and is never late. It’s blowing my mind how much she is blossoming in her new place.
DD and I go to Chicago tomorrow and other DD may have broken middle’s big toe. Last night I got a text “mom don’t freak out” then the dots. Oldest brought a chair down onto middle’s toe. If she’s still hobbling tonight and the school nurse says to have it checked we will do X-rays. Freaking shoot me - any other toe I would buddy tape and tell her to suck it up but the big one is purple and looks a little jacked. Could I be three for three on kids out of sports??
We hit the puppy jackpot is my other update. They have been ours for two months and are nearing 50 pounds each at six months old. Right now they are sleeping on my office floor. We will walk around the block at lunch. They are mostly chill, but will also be funny and play. I am so glad we did this.
Post by supertrooper1 on Oct 11, 2018 9:15:31 GMT -5
I'm 12 days in with a new supervisor and new coworker on my shift and it's going very well. My supervisor put my mind at ease the other day talking about the other work units that he manages. Only a small part of my job is intel work and his other work units are dedicated to intel. I always felt that my intel work lacked compared to their work. Apparently, the intel work unit is not doing much work and he's focusing on getting them back on task. He says my work unit is doing exactly what we need to be doing. It has helped that the weak link in my office is still out due to an injury.
mustardseed2007, honestly I get what you are saying about being over therapy. My thought was wait until school age and do speech through the school so that way no extra money or effort on your part. However, since your son is going to a private school likely your daughter would, so you might have to take her physically anyway to speech, so maybe that wouldn't work anyway?
I am now doing physical therapy for my neck, and it's like 10 months last year of PT and OT (private) for DS well as well as ST (in school), and now I am doing PT. When will it end???
Post by covergirl82 on Oct 11, 2018 9:18:27 GMT -5
I met with the potential new pediatrician on Tuesday. I like her a lot from the initial visit. I didn't realize that this office also offers mental health counseling as part of the membership, so that is a plus. (They don't bill insurance, so it's about $2000 a year for membership for a family of four (and we can use our HSA dollars to pay for it), which includes all office visits, generic prescriptions, labs, basic x-rays, and mental health counseling.) DH is on board with all of us switching to this office (it's a family practice), so now we just have to complete the paperwork.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Oct 11, 2018 9:23:50 GMT -5
waverly , oh we also did PT for DD's neck!! She had torticollis and after 13 months of physical therapy she ended up getting a botox injection in her neck followed by 3 months of additional PT and her torticollis was finally gone.
And yeah, I imagine she's going to go to private school. We had considered putting her in public b/c she doesn't need as much help as DS does in grasping letters and reading...although since she's hard to understand she hasn't progressed through her language/letter lessons like I think she should. Again...another reason for speech therapy I guess.
And DS' tutoring on top of that, which is the most expensive thing of all.
mustardseed2007, does your school district offer any speech therapy through the state? Ours is mandated once they turn three if they're evaluated and found deficient. Since it's through the public school system, they also need to provide transportation to and from daycare or a therapist would come to her daycare. It's a really nice option for us since she can start at three and we don't need to miss any work for it. If we chose a private school for K, we would need to figure out the transportation or pay for our own therapist (one of the reasons we chose public) but it's worth it to take advantage of free services for a couple years. I don't know if yours offers something like this?
mustardseed2007, do her pre-school teachers have a problem with her speech? Could you ask them to have her slow down. It sounds like if she slows her speech down she can be understood better so she has just gotten into a bad habit. I had speech from K-6th grade and had to basically re-learn the entire alphabet of sounds. It was okay in the younger grades but as I got older I got made fun of and it really made me uncomfortable to talk in class. I choose to drop it in 6th as by then the only letter I couldn't say was "r". Now taking Spanish was horrible as those "r's" not being able to pronounce and no speech left me almost failing.
TWERK: DD finished her work in class. She said so fast that the teacher actually checked it to make sure she did it correctly. Teacher sent home DD a two page triple digit subtraction page. 900-323 total new concept and she and I spent a very happy 30 minutes talking and working through them. By the 15th problem she was understanding the taking away from the 10s or 100s and moving it over to the 1s or 10s and then subtracting down.
Confessing a weakness of mine. When strangers want a favor and are rude about it I dig in my heels and do nothing for them. Since they are rude and entitled to start out with this inevitable leads to more bad behavior in their part and then my part of digging in my heels even more and bad behavior on my part. I should just give them what they want but I can’t.
Examples- being yelled at by a woman to hold a cab for her. We didn’t because the cab was done for the day. So she yelled at us again Do You Speak English? ran and got in the cab and he kicked her out.
Being asked to move my car for parking. He already had a spot that he bullied a cab driver into giving him. Winter in Chicago. I refused to move my car so we didn’t get blocked in and why should I? He had a spot already. I yelled at him because a stranger was trying to bully me and F that.
Today someone honked at me for not turning right at a red light with traffic. So I sat there. He went around me in the left and turned in front of me so I honked back. My first impulse was sit there because F that it had been seconds the light was red.
Post by covergirl82 on Oct 11, 2018 12:24:42 GMT -5
waverly, similar to your confession, DH and I confronted 3 women who were standing in a parking spot to save it at the city beach in the small town where my parents have a cottage. It was 4th of July week, and there was a non-stop stream of cars looking for parking spaces. Meanwhile, there was a lot a block away with enough spaces available that they wouldn't have had to save one. We told them that saving spaces is not how it works during a busy holiday (and I should know, I've gone there my pretty much my whole life around the 4th of July), but they wouldn't budge. It was infuriating.
covergirl82, we saw that in San Diego. We were pulling out of a space at beach parking, and these women we coming into stand in the parking space where we were pulling out. They were talking to us through out window, and we are like we have nothing to do with this. Their car was 3 rows away and of course the car nearest goes to pull into the spot, and has to almost run her over to get her to move.
We got a spot because I remembered it from the last time I was there 15 years ago to get there early. So yeah if they were native to SD than they should know to get their early or Uber etc.
Another quick response TWERK... it's getting casted this afternoon. womp womp.
Apparently when a doctor says a cast is the best thing for you, telling them that a cast isn't the best thing for your lifestyle doesn't really do much to help things heal.
Post by erinshelley21 on Oct 11, 2018 13:12:18 GMT -5
Ugh that sucks k3am ! I'm glad they got you in quickly though.
Meeting with realtor #3 for my office today. I really, really hope he can get this place sold. I hate having it just sit. I also hate paying money for a building that is just sitting empty.
Have not started car shopping yet. Its giving me anxiety thinking about taking on a car payment but I'm also feeling anxious every time my current vehicle starts marking a noise.
We have 99% decided to get rid of our camper. We went 4 times this year. We had a blast all 4 times. Even on the trip where we lose power and even on the trip where part of it almost flew off driving down the interstate. But we can put that money towards a vehicle and a vacation every year rather than every 2 or 3 years. I'm sad but also relieved since it is a lot of money every year.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Oct 11, 2018 13:15:05 GMT -5
mellym, they do, I had put in a request for services previously and didn't hear back. Then we had her in private therapy for a while. It is covered by our insurance at least, so it's 35 dollars per visit.
mustardseed2007, I think there may be a need to really insist at home that she use her big girl voice at all times. After months of that with DS, he’s now talking where he can be understood virtually all the time. He’s almost 4.5.
Quick update from the kids' perspective, since shakinros mentioned it yesterday. They're doing so, so well with all the transitions. No real issues whatsoever, so I'm kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop. They love having bunk beds at Dad's house and their pets at my house. Our weekends together have been so smooth and positive and they're obviously picking up on that too, given the comment they made to DH about divorce life being better.
I do think that DD2 has a little bit of a hard time missing me, because she tends to have a minor meltdown her first night back with me each week. But some snuggles and time together usually fix that.
They've had a couple questions about how we'll do Christmas recently, but seemed ok with our plan. So we'll see how things progress.
I think everything might be worked out by Thanksgiving, which would be amazing!
Post by greenmonkey1 on Oct 11, 2018 14:45:14 GMT -5
mustardseed2007 In my state the county is responsible for early intervention through age three then the local public school district is responsible moving forward. We had DS2 evaluated by the school district when he turned 3 and have been working with the public school district for speech (and private over the summer) since about this time last year. I was successful in helping him eliminate some of his speech errors (like lellow) on my own, but his larger articulation issues need a professional.
Could you get DD evaluated by the school district (free) and then go from there? You do not have to accept what they offer in terms of speech services, but it may give you a base point. I know your older one goes to private and am not sure what your public school district is like, but that route would be free and give you some peace of mind. Alternately, what does your daycare say? Do they happen to have a person in the company/center who has training in early identification? We toured a center that had a person in the company with master's in special education who would come to observe a kiddo if the teacher thought a conversation needed to be had with the parents about extra support.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Oct 11, 2018 15:35:42 GMT -5
Yeah I'm looking into it now. It looks like I'll need to go through our district since she's 4.5. Also, technically, even if your kid is in private school a kid are supposed to be able to receive services that the district offers if they qualify, but I'd probably have to get her there. Which might not work if it has to be noon or whatever.
Post by traveltheworld on Oct 11, 2018 22:01:44 GMT -5
We had our new nanny come over this afternoon as an introduction to the kids and had her stay for dinner to just get acquainted. So far so good. She seems nice. She loves lego, so DS was in heaven.