I have about 3 or 4 drafts written that are unfinished. Between my preschooler, my toddler, and my 3 month old...life is busy. With just that it would be busy! Here is what our schedule looks like:
Monday: Riley to school. Bree to PCH (intensive feeding therapy) at 2.
Tuesday: All kids home
Wednesday: Riley to school. Bree has speech at home with Mr. Brian Eyre at 9 and PCH at 2.
Thursday: All kids home. Bree has OT with Kim Grant at home at 2.
Friday: Riley to school. Bree has early intervention with Kyla Rock at 730 and PCH at 10.
I am not sure if you noticed, but Bree no longer goes to preschool. For now, we decided to pull her out. It was too many people going in too many directions and being too busy. Sometimes it is important to have a day where you have absolutely nothing to do, and I find that to be very true with kids. Sometimes they just need to have some time to play in their rooms or outside. Lose themselves in their imagination.
Feeding therapy is going okay. It is not the quick fix that I was hoping for (who doesn't hope for that?) but it seems as though they are taking the time to address all of Bree's issues and helping her work through them. This is so that she does not regress when she does finally start eating. On Mondays we can a co-visit with her feeding therapist and occupational therapist. Her feeding therapist is Marnie Madden. We love her. She listens to Bree, and makes it fun for her, but also knows what is best for her. Bree always wants to go play with Miss Marnie.
When we are going to and from therapy we end up parking in the parking garage. In order to park in there you have to park on level 2 or above, which means that we have use the elevator. Every time I ask Bree to push the buttons, she gets very excited and runs forward yelling "Oh boy!". It brings a huge smile to my face every time.
Bree knows her numbers pretty well so using the elevators gives a great opportunity to practice them.
When we started feeding therapy she weighed 22.8, two weeks later she was 22.7 (she had a puke bug the week before), and then she was 23.6 today!! When we started she was 87 cm tall (34.3 inches) and she was the same two weeks later, and then she was 88 cm tall (34.6 inches) today.
Here's to hoping that I do not have drafts...but actual posts more consistently.
