Rowan has his first tooth! It is not big enough to take a picture of yet! But I will post pics as soon as possible. Jonathan found it early this morning! I was upset I didn't find it first! Hopefully nursing will still go well! AKA no biting!
I can't believe my little man is growing up!
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Updates! Redone ~ Jon posted early w/o permission, so I had to finish it!
I am soo far behind in me blogging world that I feel that I can not catch up. I don't want to leave anything out! So here are some highlights!
* Thank you to everyone who prayed for Carpenter's third ear tube surgery! Our surgery was delayed that morning, which was annoying but he got the tubes in and everything looks great! Dr. Cooter said that he put in a different type of tube, one that is supposed to be longer lasting.
* Sadie is usually really good for nap time. I just lay her down in her bed and close the door, and she falls asleep. But for the past week she has been a little more destructive and not going to sleep like a little angel. Usually I do a quick eye sweep of her room before I lay her down, but apparently I am not doing a great job. She found Marley's make-up bag and poured powder all over herself and put lipstick everywhere. She also found a black marker again. She wrote all over herself and Marley's sheets! She decided to switch beds, to mess up Marley's instead of hers! That was nice of her right?
* Granny Long is still beside MUSC! Please pray for her strength and health. As soon as we think that she was coming out of the hospital into a rehab/assisted living place, she had a bad spell. One of her lungs collapsed.
* Kelly and Stace - 6! I got to go see Jon and Kate plus 8 with Kelly and Ali! We had a great time! They didn't bring the children though! Aiden, I think is the cutest! But their children have beautiful coloring! I was totally amazed by their commitment to God. Jon had a rough time, even with Gran coming over to help, rowan will not take a bottle. He wouldn't eat anything either! They wouldn't let us take pics - so this is all I got!
* Rowan can move anywhere he wants to! He started off rocking back and forth, next he went to crawling like an inch worm(this was really funny, I wished I got it on video, he would arch his back and move forward), no he is crawling and he can get up into a sitting position from the floor! I think this 6 month old wants to catch up with his brother and sisters. He has also had the world's worst diaper rash. He is still eating all night long and eating baby food stage 2. He also has started pulling up on stuff! Can you believe it - 6 months old!
* Marley has been playing softball, and I have no pics yet! We are always running out the door and I forget my camera. So I will try to get some at the next game! She is playing awesome at first place. She is making alot of outs and hitting the ball pretty well! She has had a lot of homework! She made all A's this 9 weeks!
* Taylor only has only 2 weeks left of school! Please pray for her during her final exams!
* Marley wen on her first spend the night church trip! I can not believe she is old enough to go on these! Her Aunt Missy and cousin Bailey went also! They seemed to have a great time even though it rained and had creepy showers!
Carpenter didn't understand why he couldn't go!
* Carpenter's game has been rained out for the past 4 weekends! I hope this weekend will not be cancelled! I know he will love to play!
* I got 12 inches cut off my hair! I donated it to locks of love! It feels great to get it cut off and create a new you!
* Carpenter and Rowan have been so cute together! Carpenter will sit up with his legs in a V and so will Rowan. Carpenter will roll the ball to Rowan. And Rowan will manage to roll it back to Carpenter, of course after Rowan chews all over it! This is another one I need to get a video of!
* And for the final reveal of the update! I almost got into a fight at Marley's softball game! I couldn't believe it! I felt like such a redneck afterwards! But I stuck up for myself and we will leave it at that! My feisty Mexican side came out again!
Please check out these cute videos of Carpenter and Zip!
Video 1
Video 2
Pics from Meme's site
* Thank you to everyone who prayed for Carpenter's third ear tube surgery! Our surgery was delayed that morning, which was annoying but he got the tubes in and everything looks great! Dr. Cooter said that he put in a different type of tube, one that is supposed to be longer lasting.
* Sadie is usually really good for nap time. I just lay her down in her bed and close the door, and she falls asleep. But for the past week she has been a little more destructive and not going to sleep like a little angel. Usually I do a quick eye sweep of her room before I lay her down, but apparently I am not doing a great job. She found Marley's make-up bag and poured powder all over herself and put lipstick everywhere. She also found a black marker again. She wrote all over herself and Marley's sheets! She decided to switch beds, to mess up Marley's instead of hers! That was nice of her right?
* Granny Long is still beside MUSC! Please pray for her strength and health. As soon as we think that she was coming out of the hospital into a rehab/assisted living place, she had a bad spell. One of her lungs collapsed.
* Kelly and Stace - 6! I got to go see Jon and Kate plus 8 with Kelly and Ali! We had a great time! They didn't bring the children though! Aiden, I think is the cutest! But their children have beautiful coloring! I was totally amazed by their commitment to God. Jon had a rough time, even with Gran coming over to help, rowan will not take a bottle. He wouldn't eat anything either! They wouldn't let us take pics - so this is all I got!
* Rowan can move anywhere he wants to! He started off rocking back and forth, next he went to crawling like an inch worm(this was really funny, I wished I got it on video, he would arch his back and move forward), no he is crawling and he can get up into a sitting position from the floor! I think this 6 month old wants to catch up with his brother and sisters. He has also had the world's worst diaper rash. He is still eating all night long and eating baby food stage 2. He also has started pulling up on stuff! Can you believe it - 6 months old!
* Marley has been playing softball, and I have no pics yet! We are always running out the door and I forget my camera. So I will try to get some at the next game! She is playing awesome at first place. She is making alot of outs and hitting the ball pretty well! She has had a lot of homework! She made all A's this 9 weeks!
* Taylor only has only 2 weeks left of school! Please pray for her during her final exams!
* Marley wen on her first spend the night church trip! I can not believe she is old enough to go on these! Her Aunt Missy and cousin Bailey went also! They seemed to have a great time even though it rained and had creepy showers!
Carpenter didn't understand why he couldn't go!
* Carpenter's game has been rained out for the past 4 weekends! I hope this weekend will not be cancelled! I know he will love to play!
* I got 12 inches cut off my hair! I donated it to locks of love! It feels great to get it cut off and create a new you!
* Carpenter and Rowan have been so cute together! Carpenter will sit up with his legs in a V and so will Rowan. Carpenter will roll the ball to Rowan. And Rowan will manage to roll it back to Carpenter, of course after Rowan chews all over it! This is another one I need to get a video of!
* And for the final reveal of the update! I almost got into a fight at Marley's softball game! I couldn't believe it! I felt like such a redneck afterwards! But I stuck up for myself and we will leave it at that! My feisty Mexican side came out again!
Please check out these cute videos of Carpenter and Zip!
Video 1
Video 2
Pics from Meme's site
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Disability Ghost
Sorry, I haven't blogged in a while. My life has been filled with kids being up all night and taking kids to different places!
There is this thing that hits me out of the middle of no where. It can come at me in the middle of the night, while I am making a huge breakfast for my family, picking up kids from school! On Monday, I got Carpenter's progress report at school. It was from his teacher's and therapists. I was totally upset. Carpenter's report did not come back as good as I had hoped for. I was disappointed, cried, and was upset all day long. At the Meyer Center, Carpenter just doesn't seem to be showing the teachers/therapist his personality. And it upsets me! I want them to see my son, and to love him and his adorable personality. He is not saying much. The fact that some of them thought he was non-verbal really upset me! I just feel like I am doing him a disservice. I currently only have SI in the home. Not many company's have in house therapy anymore. And I am not taking him to therapy outside the MC. I sometimes feel like I am on this journey alone. I bare the burden for the responsibility of Carpenter. I ache about his future!
The disability ghost hits me out of no where. This report has just set me off this week! I can be making some scrambled eggs and I get this overwhelming feeling about Carpenter's future. What will it hold? What will it be like for him? Honestly, I am terrified! I am crying about it now! I thought deciding on preschool was hard, but next is elementary school, but what about high school? I always keep these assaults by the ghost to myself. No one wants to see me cry and may not understand why. I seek comfort but am unable to obtain it because I don't share my concerns.
I am panicking about Carpenter's speech so much. I constantly pray about it! When we read together, or when he is with his therapist/teachers, I can feel the inside of my body urging him to use his words. It gets so frustrating not being able to understand what he is saying to me. I pray that he will talk so much, using words everyone can understand, that I have to tell him to shut-up!
When you meet parents of children with disabilities, there are two powerful phrases: normal and high functioning. Those words can make you cry from lack of or make you happy from your children doing so well! Of course you want your child "high functioning" but what if that is not to be!?! Every parent says these words, is it to make you feel better, so people will not judge your children? Is it to protect them? To rub it in?
I will write something happier later. When I have use of the laptop!
There is this thing that hits me out of the middle of no where. It can come at me in the middle of the night, while I am making a huge breakfast for my family, picking up kids from school! On Monday, I got Carpenter's progress report at school. It was from his teacher's and therapists. I was totally upset. Carpenter's report did not come back as good as I had hoped for. I was disappointed, cried, and was upset all day long. At the Meyer Center, Carpenter just doesn't seem to be showing the teachers/therapist his personality. And it upsets me! I want them to see my son, and to love him and his adorable personality. He is not saying much. The fact that some of them thought he was non-verbal really upset me! I just feel like I am doing him a disservice. I currently only have SI in the home. Not many company's have in house therapy anymore. And I am not taking him to therapy outside the MC. I sometimes feel like I am on this journey alone. I bare the burden for the responsibility of Carpenter. I ache about his future!
The disability ghost hits me out of no where. This report has just set me off this week! I can be making some scrambled eggs and I get this overwhelming feeling about Carpenter's future. What will it hold? What will it be like for him? Honestly, I am terrified! I am crying about it now! I thought deciding on preschool was hard, but next is elementary school, but what about high school? I always keep these assaults by the ghost to myself. No one wants to see me cry and may not understand why. I seek comfort but am unable to obtain it because I don't share my concerns.
I am panicking about Carpenter's speech so much. I constantly pray about it! When we read together, or when he is with his therapist/teachers, I can feel the inside of my body urging him to use his words. It gets so frustrating not being able to understand what he is saying to me. I pray that he will talk so much, using words everyone can understand, that I have to tell him to shut-up!
When you meet parents of children with disabilities, there are two powerful phrases: normal and high functioning. Those words can make you cry from lack of or make you happy from your children doing so well! Of course you want your child "high functioning" but what if that is not to be!?! Every parent says these words, is it to make you feel better, so people will not judge your children? Is it to protect them? To rub it in?
I will write something happier later. When I have use of the laptop!
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