To Pee or Not

We are beginning the potty process. Erik is showing some interest so we stopped at Buy Buy Baby to get all the stuff. 100 bucks later.....I know! We are stocked up. I walked away for a second as Erik and Mike we choosing the potty. Erik went straight for the Pink Dora potty and I heard Mike negotiating for Thomas or Buzz Lightyear instead. To a child who's blankie is already pink and who loves Dora I could see his point.....but Mike won.



We even got two potty books and an extra seat for away from the house excursions.
He certainly didn't want to sit on anything today.....we're still in the getting to know you phase. I bet it's a few months before he sits.



Snuffie can keep it warm for him. Is Snuffie a boy or girl? Anyone?

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Spinning

He's been walking about 3 weeks now, and yesterday he figured out how to spin.  He no longer sits down...he spins and paces all day long. He is ON THE MOVE!

March Madness

Well, March flew by!  It was a fun time with my sister and nieces here for a trip down south to the beach house and Disneyland!  As you can see we had a lovely time!

My sister is going to kill me for posting this picture

We are the scooter sisters!!  I twisted my knee doing jumping jacks (fat girls should NOT do jumping jacks!) the week before so I had to rent a scooter to get around Disneyland because my knee was killing me.  My mom has a scooter, and this was after the kids were in bed and Grandma was babysitting and the grownups went back for the big rides. Kerrie's feet were killing her from walking the whole day so she used my mom's scooter........we look like idiots,  but our bodies were happy with us!



OT versus PT

Erik had a visit from an OT, referred by the PT for the weakness in his arms and his pronated feet.  She was supposed to give a "sensory" test....but she forgot.  The PT is now mad at the OT because she needs the results of the test for the IFSP next month....I'm over all the abbreviations aren't you?  In a nut shell Erik is doing much better just because he is walking!!  He still has lots of weakness in his arms and hands, and his joints crack and pop at the slightest pressure. 

I think the PT will likely suggest a neuro workup for the next hurdle. I asked why she wants to do a neuro workup and it's because of this......she says the flapping is not normal, but I did it - and other kids in the family have done it......but it freaks her out. He's done it seriously since he was born when he's excited....he only does it when he's excited. I find it kind of cute....but now since SHE'S worried about it, it makes me worry about it!  She also said she was researching things and he has some Asperger's tendencies (this flapping thing, and the low tone and late walking).  I wanted to say "Lady, I'm low tone, and I fall a lot (and so does my father, and my sisters,,,we are a falling family), I think we're ALL a little Asperger's, it's what makes the world go round!"

Erik's been going to preschool for 2 days a week now for about a month.  He still struggles when the amount of children gets big and especially when we go outside.  When you have a child with such interesting special needs it's so hard to tell if it's a part of his special needs, or a part of just being 2!  dy

He is SO 2! Testing us ALL the time, and having some great temper tantrums.  I can certainly see where parents without a child development background would go a bit crazy (I can see Mike getting there occasionally) with the amount of NO that comes out of his mouth.

Surgery

I have another appointment on May 2 and have 6 more pounds to go.......this seems easy, but it's not because it's SO easy to say "ah I've got a month, I can cheat now and still lose it" and then before I know it it's the day of my appointment and I've only lost 2 pounds.  SO....I am working on it.

On to April!!





Finally!!!!!!

Today marks the day.....Erik is voluntarily walking through the house on his own!!! We aren't even bribing him with time on the iPad!
My child walks......at almost 31 months to the day of his birth!


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The Evolution of Walking

Erik is finally walking more and more....in the past two weeks he has gone from needing to hold something to walk around and taking a couple steps.  This week on Wednesday he began pushing toys without help and by Saturday at Grandpa and Grammie's he was taking several steps with no trouble!  He's still wobbly....but I am seeing great progress in the walking arena!



There is not so much progress on the school front.  He cried the entire time, and not just crying but that hysterical, "I will die without you" crying.  He cries from the beginning of outside time (10:00am) until we go home at 3:00.  He refuses to eat anything at all while at school so not only is he sad, he's starving.  He sleeps for about 20 minutes before waking up and upon not immediately seeing me begins to scream.  I then scoop him up and take him in the office so he doesn't wake up the other kids.  He happily reads books until it's time to go home.  However, if a teacher comes to talk to me he begins to freak out that she may take him away, so then he begins to cry all over, and then he looks like this.

We've been talking a LOT about school.  Tonight when we put him to bed we said "Go to sleep so you and Mommy can go to school tomorrow." to which he responded with..."OK, and I will cry there". 
At least he's making a plan to work through it.