Friday, July 24, 2009

Happy Birthday to my baby boy

Luke Nicholas is now 1 year old. This time last year I was sitting at work having contractions, but in denial that I was in labor because the stupid things weren't timeable or having any sort of pattern. Bitching to my coworkers and midwife about how this kid was *never* coming out. Ah, if only I knew. So Happy Birthday to Peanut Baby, you make my life better just by being here.








Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Gerber yogurt puffs, oh how I love thee...


O. M. G. If Luke had anything to say about it, you'd think these things should be currency and valued more than gold. Stopped at Hell-Mart last night and swung by the baby department to pick some of these up. They're a guaranteed tantrum-stopper. Luke caught sight of the bag and SQUEALED, then clutched the bag when I handed it to him and tried opening the package in his one-year-old-completely-ineffective way.

Fast-foward to dinnertime, and Luke's yelling at me because he doesn't like the spaghetti I gave him to eat. He wants to be picked up. Actually, he wants to nurse, but Mama's trying to eat her dinner, which she happens to enjoy, so she tosses some yogurt puffs on his tray instead. All of a sudden life is much better! So thank you, Gerber Yogurt Puffs, for letting me eat dinner in peace.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Developmental Delay

So it's official - Luke is developmentally delayed, specifically in the area of gross motor. His delay is profound enough that he qualifies for physical therapy through the school district. The special ed team was out again last night to go over their findings and his test results, and it's pretty dang obvious that he's behind in gross motor. There was one test that had a goal score of 10, and Luke's score was a 1. Yeah... So now, once we give the official go-ahead, they'll pull the team back together and put together some goals, and Luke will start in-home physical therapy twice a month until he's 3, at which point they re-evaluate and either stop the therapy or continue it through a different program. We're guessing the therapy will stop since he doesn't have an underlying condition causing the delay (like cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy). His goals are going to be things like army crawling, all-fours crawling, and walking within the next year (they're sure he'll be doing those things way before the year is up). Then once he hits those, they'll make him some new goals, and on and on and on.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone.

Adam's new trick - we were down visiting my grandparents over the 4th and he saw that Grandpa's friend Pete was missing part of one of his fingers and asked Pete what happened, and Pete said he can take that finger off and put it in his pocket, and he "showed" Adam by reaching into his pocket and pulling out his hand with all 5 fingers on it (Adam never noticed that it was the other hand he had pulled out). Now Adam is going around showing everyone his trick - he puts his hands in a fist, says "No fingers!", then puts his hands behind his back and pulls them out with fingers extended and says "Back on!".

In other news, we had another meeting with Special Ed last night for Luke. She's pretty sure that going by his evaluation and the questionnaires we've filled out he's going to qualify for services of some type. We'll find out what kinds of services on Monday at our final meeting.

Here's Luke sitting all by himself! Doesn't last very long, but it's a huge improvement from even 2 weeks ago. He's so cute!

And here's just a cute picture: