When Experts Disagree

My three year old is certifiable. He is the most laid back of my three boys and is now driving me absolutely crazy. The ever controversial Dr. Sears suggests that three year old are a mother’s dream come true. He seems to think that your average three year old likes to obey, remembers the rules [...]

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He should probably just get his own blog

A three and half year old child prays what is on his mind. He repeats his thank-yous (for mommy, dad, Thinker, Little Puppy and Little Bear). Then the mind wanders over the day -did we go the playground? Thank you Jesus for the playground. Recently, a please help prayer has been added to the repertoire. [...]

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Sitting on my hands

Yesterday was our big OT evaluation at the children’s hospital. LP was feeling non-compliant. A little bit oppositional perhaps. It was, in fact, his nap time, but I wanted the opening. I took it. Apparently, I had made some sort of unconscious choice. I noticed myself helping him less – significantly less – than I [...]

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Sensory Sunday: Heartbreak Edition

Recorded after Valentine’s Day at preschool, celebrated by a mother-child tea. My day was hard. Seeing LP at school sort of blew my world apart. I find I don’t spend lots of time with other kids his age. We both find it exhausting. Apparently, he does very well at school. However, today was quite difficult [...]

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Sensory Saturday: Now with less guilt!

Motherhood, that is. I’m trying it on for size. In general, I do well rejecting random guilt – like worrying I spend too much time on the computer when my kids are clearly fine, happy and busy – or worrying I don’t volunteer enough at the Thinker’s school when I couldn’t possibly do that with [...]

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Sensory Issues Saturday: The Good and The Bad

So, it’s time to share. The life of Little Puppy thus far has been a puzzle, an uphill puzzle. One piece that has just placed itself is his Sensory Profile. The Good: What we learned by filling out a short questionnaire is that he experiences noise, motion and sound as stress. The questionnaire asked me [...]

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Sounds like/Smells like

The world according to Little Puppy’s brain: smell of oregano and thyme in the garden“smells like pizza” the sight of our first snowfall“sounds like quiet” on reporting back on preschool’s description of thanksgiving“it’s for thanking God -sounds like Christmas and Christmas trees” on being offered mommy’s homemade challah bread, shared with family visiting“it’s a challah-day” [...]

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!!!

Insert here my loud joyous noises about LP’s planning and placement team meeting. I can’t make any myself because this week, I caught croup from my children. And grown-up croup doesn’t sound like a grown-up barking seal, it sounds like laryngitis, ’cause it is. And, I can’t tell you – or really, I can only [...]

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By the way….

His EEG was yesterday. I was very focused on the process. We kept him up until 11:15pm and woke him at 6. He had no food or liquids from 10pm onwards. He was sedated (yes, it took two doses), hooked up, monitored, woken and monitored with big flashing lights and sounds. Dear Matt took him. [...]

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