Awww…to breathe and function again
My entire family has been out of pocket off and on for the past 2 weeks. Ughh…everything from the flu to sinus infections. CB, HB, and I are on the mend. Olem is still battling the sinus infection but his doctor has sufficiently drugged him up so he has hope he will feel normal again soon. This seems like so late in the year to get the flu, but I guess the flu had other ideas. I was told it was some mutant, super-strong strand that invaded and that even if we had received the flu shot, it wouldn’t have mattered. The plan for the future is to still stick to my guns and not get the flu shot in upcoming years. 3 cancelled trips later and we back into our usual routine.
In other news, Olem’s crazy behavior regression back in January/February has for sure flown the coop. It has not surfaced and we hope it doesn’t rear its head again, or at least goes into hiding for a very long time. On the flip side, it seems like CB’s language skills have improved tremendously. I just read through my last blog and I will say that some fog has slipped back in. He isn’t in the regression phase, but he also isn’t in the mostly-fog free phase he went through a couple of weeks ago. He seems more like his usual self with his usual challenges, like today, he didn’t want to change activities and told me how much he didn’t like me each time a change was requested. For example, I walked into the door at his school and he told me he wanted to play more. I asked for a hug and he told me he didn’t like me and went to sit by the door and throw a fit. He followed a similar patter when we got to his speech therapist’s office and when I asked him to find his water bottle for dinner, which was located in his backpack he brought in from the car.
From the pre-k front, his head teacher and I have set a goal for CB to be able to write his name before he leaves school, which will be the end of May. The goal is for the first letter to be in caps and the others to be in lowercase. We will see how this goes :). Being that CB really dislikes writing and doesn’t put much focus into it, this may be a stretch goal. Oh, and I found out that his head teacher also worked at the university lab school CB will attend next year. She had nothing but positive things to say about the school. I love CB’s head teacher! Too bad, the school isn’t way closer.