We have had an amazing winter with Tyler so far. He has been neurologically stable and actually starting to explore more with food. The best part over the last 3 weeks, I've come to realize his face has filled out again and his 18 month clothes won't fit anymore. Actually he's looking too big for his 24 month clothes too. He's really starting to transition from a 20 month to a 3 year old.
We are now starting the process of talking to our school district about services over the summer and preschool with services. We've been gathering our information to present to the district and researching the types of programs we may be presented with. We are slightly concerned that Tyler has made so many accomplishments in the last few months that it will be hard to convince the district to continue his services. It will be an interesting process. At the very least he is enrolled in the same preschool Rachel has been at. Hard to believe we are at preschool with him, huh.
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| In side our igloo. Dog jumped out of the window right after this shot. |
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| "Help Mommy, Help!" |
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| Yup, we put them to work around here. |
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| The only time we liked playing with snow so far. |
We have had a ton of snow this month. There is about 2 feet on the ground here. It comes up to Tyler's waist. He is not a big fan. The poor guy can barely shuffle in his snow suit to begin with. He does like sledding if you meet a few criteria. Number one, no snow is to fly in the general direction of the boy--God forbid it lands on his face. Number two, he is to be carried to the top of the hill and refuses to stand up if he's not on a plowed area. Number three, be very good at playing the gloves off, gloves on game. If the temperature is below freezing (which it has been for 28 of the 31 days of January), we last about 15 minutes before he starts balling his eyes out. Above freezing we can get 30 minutes. So, to sum up January in two words, CABIN FEVER!
Tyler just had another 2 year old moment last week that landed him in the Emergency room. He decided to try to expel some of his pent up energy by bouncing on a kid chair. Well, he landed front teeth first into a pile of blocks. He tore open the inside of his bottom lip which require a couple of stitches and bang is upper front teeth pretty badly. Time will tell if he will need his baby teeth pulled a little sooner than nature has planned. He did great for me in the ED at Southern. We saw the same Dr from last March for the High Chair incident. He vaguely remembered us enough to ask if he's see us before. I kindly reminded him about his quote, "My Lord, look at the size of those ventricles!" As for the event as a whole, he woke up the next day as if nothing ever happened. Hasn't slowed him down. Good for him, now where is my cup of caffeinated tea?
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| Let's play Airplane! Next up, another trip to the ER. |
We have a few appointments in February. We go to Lebanon next week for an MRI just to check in and make sure there are no surprises. Other than that, we continue to try to teach him how to walk down stairs and recognize the tops of stairs and curbs (we can't go to school with him, so he needs to figure out how not to walk right off steps). As soon as his teeth heal a bit, we will work more on learning how to chew with our back teeth (actually this injury may have done more for this venture for the simple fact he's avoiding using his front teeth right now). And most importantly, I'm trying to cope with him not taking a nap very much anymore (really this is the most challenging thing since Rachel gave up naps, I'm going nutz). So, for the next two days we will be digging out from more snow and trying to safely expel as much kid energy as possible in fun, creative ways. Dance party anyone?
