Normal is BORING!

The Beast was scheduled for his BAER Test in August, thankfully there was a cancellation and we were able to get in a month sooner. The waiting is the worst part! When you have answers you can find tools to work through whatever may come at you, but having assumptions & what ifs ugh they just suck. You can't really do anything except guess at what might work.... The staff is amazing; very comforting and helpful with the explanation of the anesthesia what they were going to do to him. The thing that I honestly adore about CCMC is the fact that they observed him in the room while we chatted and had a good understanding of his personality.  I just love that they got that The Beast just isn't a kid that you are going to reason with, especially if it is something he doesn't want to do! You kind of just have to muscle through it even though it can be stressful. They administered him a medicine that made his a loopy and wobbly; put some...

I think we have all experienced déjà vu at least at one point in our lives, I am currently going through it with my little guy. We go to our local Family Resource Center in the district for playgroups & we LOVE all the programs that we partake in. We do the ages & stages questioners & I have been able to soundboard off the parent educators there. I am seeing all of the kids in Finn-Beast's peer group & how they are talking & Finn-Beast is not :( I became concerned with Finn-Beast's lack of talking around 15 months & expressed concerns at 18 months when he went for his well baby appointment. They referred us to Birth to 3 for an evaluation to see if he could get services. I called we set up our appointment & they did the 2 hour evaluation. Let me stop here to for a second I was SO shocked with this whole process & SUPER jealous that I didn't have this for Declan. Back on topic; after the evaluation it was decided that Finn wa...