lets talk about the holidays first!
Holidays
Thanksgiving:
I had a really hard time with the holidays. I really could not get in to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Micheal started preschool the second week in November and that helped me by giving me a break from him at lease twice a week.
I hosted thanksgiving and it was nice having it here. But Michael reamed Great-grandma really hard when he was giving her a hug and gave her a blood nose. It did finally stop bleeding but it scared him. He stayed in his room the rest of the night. The food was really good.
Christmas:
Christmas and the month of December were kind of busy but a lot of fun. I help to bring Godly Play into the worship service and it was amazing. I have so many ideas on how to use Godly Play at church and in our home. I really do love it.
Kaylee getting hurt a lot:
The week right before Christmas/winter break Kaylee and Michael and their cousins were playing outside at grandmas. Michael and Kaylee were playing on this car and he pushed her and she fell off the car she was sitting on and scraped the side of her head but it looked fine. She can in I looked at it she was not crying so she went right on playing. Monday she woke up fine and she went to school. Tuesday she woke up and said she was not feeling good. Then we saw her EYE and it was swollen shut almost and her fever was almost 102. We took her to the ER right away. Poor thing had scratched the inside of her eyelid and the white part of her eye and it was infected. She was put on antibiotics and everything was good. Then the week after Christmas Michael, Payton, Kaylee and I were playing Doctor in Kaylee's room. I was the patient they were the doctors. All was going well until I asked them to start warping it up to get ready to leave. Michael gets hyper when it is clean up time. Anyways make a long story short Michael was pulling on Payton and Kaylee was pulling back on Payton to get her away from Michael when he let go and Payton flew right at Kaylee and hit Kaylee right in the mouth. With in seconds there was blood everywhere I could not tell what was bleeding in her mouth. Thank God Ken was home. He called our next-door neighbor to come stay with the kids while we took Kaylee back to the ER. Once there they determined that she had bitten off a good piece of her inside lip and cheek. They were not able to stitch it so the put something on it to help stop the bleeding and she was given an antibiotics mouthwash to use until it healed! Then right after Winter break was over Michael and Kaylee were outside playing at grandmas house again and some how Michael throw a very large and heavy rock on top of Kaylee's left hand. I heard he screaming all the way in the back bedroom of grandmas house and came running out. There was Kaylee standing and screaming in the entryway of grandmas house blood everywhere and she was so scared. (We have boo-boo towels at our house and grandmas house. They are dark colored hand towels that don't show the blood on them. More for Ken then the kids!) I grab our boo-boo towels and saw the bone sticking up just under her nail. Yuck. So I wrapped her hand as best I could and taped the towel around it and off we went to the ER again. We got there and they took us right in
slowly took off the towel and sent us right to x-ray. Kaylee was not happy about having to move her hand that much but they got the x-rays they wanted. We really did not have to wait that long for the x-rays to get back but while we were waiting the gave pain meds, antibiotics and a new toy. The doctor came in and told us that her finger was broken. the first 2 joins were broken vertically. Then there were 3 more doctors in the room talking about what to do next to save the nail bed and how to stitch it! Out of the whole the shot to numb the finger/hand was the worst part. they removed the nail and stitched the nail bed and then glued the nail back under the skin to help the new nail grow back in. It looked nasty and hurt for the next 2 days really badly. She is doing much better now her finger will always look a little different shaped but the nail is growing back!
Christmas Eve: The day was great. The kids had a fun day playing and just hanging out. we went to church in the morning and then around 1:30pm we went to Jean and Sally's for an early dinner. Sally seemed really tired and quiet but still had a good time. We stayed for a few hours and then went home to get ready for church at 10:00pm. At church I found out that Sally had fallen out of her chair right after we left. So after church Janet, Phil, Steve and I went to the hospital to see Jean and Sally.
Christmas Day:
The kids slept in! (Kaylee went to her 1st late candle light service on Chrsitmas eve). When they got up the open gift and play with their stuff for quiet awhile then we got dress and went to Bud an Joann'a house and open gifts with them. Michael had a hard time understanding that everyone opened there own gifts so he helped me a lot. Bud keep yelling at him and I did my best to keep my mouth shut and it was so so hard not to tell him to shut the hell up and give the kid a break he is 3! Anyways Kaylee got a doll house (a huge doll house) and Michael got a new lawn mower which turned out to be their new favorite toys. after that we left and went to grandmas how and made some appetizers to take to My aunt Pam's house. I was really worried about Michael because she has a dog and Michael is scared of them. But it worked out great because the kids got to play outside and Michael loves that. Then we went back to Bud and Joann's house for dinner. I was not happy about this because they (Bud) does not let the kids do anything. Their house is not kid friendly and they don't want the kids to run around, the kids can't play in the backyard because of the pool and lastly Bud cares more about his dog Rusty than his own grand-kids. As I said before Michael is scared of dogs and will not even go in their house if he hears him walking or barking! We had dinner and it was good then the kids (Kaylee and Michael were the only ones) got to open gifts from Ken's family members. All in all Christmas went okay. It is just so stressful and a lot of running around but the kids did extremely well.
Now lets talk about kids:
Michael:
He started Special Ed preschool at Anderson right behind our house in November and then started at the Social Skills Center at A is for apple right down the street from our house. He goes to preschool 2 days a week and the social skills center 3 days a week. His speech has improved so much it is amazing. He is talking so clear most of the time. His social language is still behind but improving. He get speech at a is for apple one day a week after the social skills center. He and Kaylee are the same size now. Which blows my mind since he never hardly eats anything. We are really trying to work on eating and using the potty. He still has really bad sleep at night and wakes up a lot. I have done so much reading the last few months on Potty training, eating and sleeping for special needs children that I am not sure where to start first and with what. I feel like he has kinda hit a plateau for right now with things and I think that is okay. He has learned so much in the last 6 to 8 months he needs to process it all.
Kaylee:
Well I wrote about Kaylee and getting hurt so much over winter break already but I did not write about the CPS being called and showing up at our house 2 days after she broke her finger. I did not know what to say or do. I called Michael's old social worker from KiDango Stacie and she got back to me right away and told me what to do and how to request for her to work with us and with in 2 weeks she was doing an assessment on both kids. Once that started CPS closed our case. Currently Stacie is finishing their reports and will be over here some time next week to talk to me. They are going to provide emotional therapy for Kaylee and talk with her about Michael and support us in helping her learn what gets Michael over stimulated. It will be nice for her to have some one on one time since she sees Michael getting it on a Daily bases.
Now lets talk about kids:
Michael:
He started Special Ed preschool at Anderson right behind our house in November and then started at the Social Skills Center at A is for apple right down the street from our house. He goes to preschool 2 days a week and the social skills center 3 days a week. His speech has improved so much it is amazing. He is talking so clear most of the time. His social language is still behind but improving. He get speech at a is for apple one day a week after the social skills center. He and Kaylee are the same size now. Which blows my mind since he never hardly eats anything. We are really trying to work on eating and using the potty. He still has really bad sleep at night and wakes up a lot. I have done so much reading the last few months on Potty training, eating and sleeping for special needs children that I am not sure where to start first and with what. I feel like he has kinda hit a plateau for right now with things and I think that is okay. He has learned so much in the last 6 to 8 months he needs to process it all.
Kaylee:
Well I wrote about Kaylee and getting hurt so much over winter break already but I did not write about the CPS being called and showing up at our house 2 days after she broke her finger. I did not know what to say or do. I called Michael's old social worker from KiDango Stacie and she got back to me right away and told me what to do and how to request for her to work with us and with in 2 weeks she was doing an assessment on both kids. Once that started CPS closed our case. Currently Stacie is finishing their reports and will be over here some time next week to talk to me. They are going to provide emotional therapy for Kaylee and talk with her about Michael and support us in helping her learn what gets Michael over stimulated. It will be nice for her to have some one on one time since she sees Michael getting it on a Daily bases.
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