June Update

We took this past weekend off from chelation. Reece has been stimmy and I really didn't have it in me to go without sleep again. If it were just taking care of Reece, it wouldn't be a problem. But with two other four year olds and a seven year old that take turns waking me up all night, I physically and emotionally couldn't handle it this weekend. I did get some better sleep so I will be ready to go this weekend!

Last week was kind of strange. Reece has been answering us "yeah" or "no" pretty consistantly when we ask questions. Eye contact has been amazing. He has been more stimmy. His teachers noticed that too. Also, when he went to speech last Thursday, he didn't want to work. Two days earlier when I said we were going to speech, he replied "YAY!". But when we went, he basically just stimmed and refused to work. Although he did say "bye-bye" to let us know he wanted to go home!

The next day was his Field Day in the morning and his two other four year old sisters in the afternoon. It rained before his so they had it inside in the gym. Between the acoustics and all the parents with cameras and video cameras going, he panicked. He was aftraid I was going to leave and didn't want to let go of me. So for the first race, he had me by one hand and his speech therapist by the other! But, he did do the next races without me. He was happy but didn't want me out of his sight.

Later, at the girls Field Day, his bus drivers brough thim over to me since I was driving him home. Their events were outside since the sun was out. I had gotten the times wrong in my head and thought I was getting him after the girls parties. But he actually gets out 10 minutes after theirs started. (Like I said earlier, I needed sleep!) I immediately started to panick. I figured he would be dragging me, kicking and screaming to the car. He did pull at first, but then he pretty much followed the kids. He sat behind them and when they got up, so did he. It wasn't all so cooperative but he did great! That is until we had to go inside for the parties! I had to give a friend of mine my purse and his backpack so I could physically pick him up and bring him to the party. He is so strong!

I brought him to t's party with me. My mom went to Erin's. The last time he was in one of the girls classes for a party it was chaos. He dumped toys and ran to the sink to play with the faucet. It was really stressful and crazy. This was much better. He walked over to toys but didn't dump anything. He went to the faucet but was fine when I told him he couldn't play with it after he turned it on and off once. He stimmed at a dollhouse and walked around. At one point I caught him running to the bathroom and I led him out saying he couldn't play with the water. Then he peed in his Pull-Up! He was actually going in to use the potty! Luckily his teacher was still in her room so I could change him. But this was drastically different behavior from what we saw the previous night at speech. All in all it was a good day!