About my son...

After becoming pregnant with my 2nd child I decided to be a Stay-at-home-mom. I knew it would be a transition. And I know each kid is different but there have been some difficult times. I've probably mentioned that ever since my son was a newborn we've dealt with his milk/dairy allergy. There have been other things that stuck out as "different" to me like when my grandma visited us and said my son "is different -he's very wiggly"-This from a woman who had 4 boys of her own. So, often times I would think I know my son is active but that's pretty normal for a little boy-Right? But could he be too hyper?
I think as much as we don't want to admit we go over in our heads "evaluating" our kids -Are they "normal" ? Of course I know some of it is the transition of being a stay-at-home-mom. So this has been a constant round and round in my head -Maybe he's normal and I'm just not used to being around and dealing with it all day. He's just a rowdy little boy that does different things or is there something else ??
So, just to be sure we went to the Dr. last week-They evaluated his speech/behavior. It was interesting the Dr. gave my son chalk to draw on the chalkboard. Then he threw down some blocks to see what my son would do...At 1st my son just ignored them. Then he picked them up and put them on the little kids table and proceeded to line them up. The Dr. asked if he lines things up a lot?- "He does" I answered. (I had always wondered about that too). The Dr. would just observe and talk with me -It was kinda difficult cause my son tried to leave the room a few times and sometimes I would stroke my son's hair. And the Dr. kept reminding me to not "interrupt". The Dr. would say as a mom I'm trying to protect him and our roles are different in that way -But really try not to interfere-So, I tried not to.

So what all came of this Dr's appt? Well the Dr. said that obviously he is intelligent like when he started counting the blocks. And he's not too bad on his speech. But, his brain does work a little differently. The Dr. compared him to Bill Gates(obviously he's smart but, Bill didn't talk until he was 4 and was a bit "different")
My son does exhibit some ADHD behaviors and some Autistic behaviors but,would not be fully considered that. So he falls into the category of PDD or PDD-NOS. I still don't know much about it but of course have researched it some. I have found this website informative. At this point there's not really any treatment just another evaluation in 6mo's to see his progress. I think it will be 1 of those things that we'll have to see if this affects him at school or not too. The Dr. did say a few other "tips" like when my son kept trying to get into my purse even after saying not to. The Dr. said I should move my purse -That it could fall into his "repetitive behaviors" so it may not be him disobeying on purpose and that we should move him or the object away. Another thing that was interesting is that my son has always been "underweight" part of it is not being able to utilize milk,creamy sauces,etc. Some is also his picky eating/behaviors. The Dr. said that my son probably does have a bad association with food since his allergy experience-Causing pick eating behaviors. Which does make sense-I never thought of it that way. So, it was all interesting and at least I know more. As they say knowing is half the battle-And we will continue on.

Our 4th of July ...

I hope everyone had a nice holiday! We had a pretty good 1-Although it started out raining we decided to head out to my family's cabin off the Illinois river as planned...

As we traveled the highway and getting through the storm-We had a bit of a storm of our own going on. The hubby and I had a tiff -Because what I saw as "typical" for him being "cranky" about taking a trip to the cabin and visiting my family. Although we take a 3-4 hr. trip to visit his family all the time and he makes sure we do no-matter what. For instance-just a few days ago my son had a Dr's appt.(more on that in an upcoming post) and my hubby couldn't take off work for it since he has no more vacation time. But, we're planning to visit his family in the up-coming weeks I thought we'd have to leave Sat. since he doesn't have vacation time-Oh! But of course he's trying to finagle his way to be able to leave Fri.-again all "typical" in my mind. Anyways once we vented a bit -We got over it. And back to being on our way to a fun 4th of July...

On our way-we stopped at 1 of my Fav. places -The Castle in Muskogee! In July they sell fireworks,Christmas time they have a huge display of Christmas blow-up decorations, and in May of course they have a Renaissance Fair. So we bought fireworks there and then stopped to eat lunch at this place with a bull on top and pretty cool decorations inside too and of course pretty good food.

Then back on the road -We finally got to the cabin and it stopped raining! Our cabin is a primitive place in the woods-It has electricity at least but,no running water-So it's more or less like camping. We had fun-we swam in the river,the kids even went fishing,we got back to the cabin-ate dinner,and of course-Fireworks! We decorated a little tree-For our 4th if July tree! =DAnd after seeing some of the big fireworks we headed out-We didn't stay the night like some other family members. On our way back home we saw fireworks going off in the distance-Everywhere! And at 1st I thought it was just fireworks but,we also saw lightning! So, we were glad to be headed home. We got home pretty late-And unfortunately found a couple ticks when we got back. Once we were all cleaned up we all went to bed. And that was our 4th of July! All in all pretty good.

Happy Early 4th of July!

I'm here! I haven't fallen off the face of the earth or anything ;) I guess for once I haven't had a lot to say. We're kinda in a Summer lull even though we've done a few things here and there like gone to my hubby's work summer picnic,taken the kids to a couple of playgroup outings, and just general summer hanging out.

Next up 4th of July! I'm still not quite sure what all we're going to do- maybe head out to my family's cabin off the Illinois river. Hang out with some family,do fireworks, have fun! Whatever we do I'm sure it will be better than my worst 4th of July-Let me tell you: When I was working I worked at a business that was never closed-Not even for Christmas! I guess you can tell 1 of the reasons -I decided to be a Stay-at-home mom. I could go on about how our world is so 24/7 ON But, I digress. So, even though I was pretty lucky and got out of working most holidays I did occassionally have to work. A few years ago I had to work a 4th of July and my hubby decided to visit his family and take my daughter-So I missed the fun :( That was bad in itself but, then I was also starting to get a cold. So, finally after I got done working I just wanted to get home and go to bed. But, seriously have you ever tried to sleep early on 4th of July? Yeah-Um Fireworks!! That didn't work out so well. So, that was my worst 4th of July ever. How about you?-Any great 4th of July's? any bad ones? I hope everyone is having a good summer and has a fun 4th of July! And enjoy this video-Yep! You might have guessed that I took it on our vacation/laser show:

Happy 4th of July,Or Canada day, or whatever you may celebrate where you are!!