Isaac's IN

So we have had a series of meetings with the Early Intervention Program here in HI about Isaac to get and his Sensory. He is now successfully into the EI Program here in HI. Today was his official assessment. And is is ahead in fine and gross motor skills, which we had already been told by the OT at Tripler. A little below average for speech, not delayed enough for help, but will be monitored to make sure that he progress on time. A little behind in Cognitive, which I actually disagree with, but I am not going to stop him from getting extra help. A normal for self-help skills, and one other that I can't remember.

Now lets be honest Isaac has some behavioral problems, mainly because I never knew what to do when he would throw a fit. So he had learned to throw a fit when he wants to refuse to do stuff. Now if he is a well rested, well feed child, then I do NOT let him get away with it. But if it is 1 hr past nap time, and he has not a had a good lunch, I am NOT going to make him point to my EYE!! You kinda have to pick a choice what is important in life. But the Special Education Teacher SCOLDED me for not "following through" on that. PLEASE lets be realistic. And just cause I don't throw a big party when he does something that he is supposed to do, does not mean I am a bad mom. I think a simple thank you should suffice.

Family Pictures 2007

Meeting with The OT

So Monday we met with the Occupational Therapist. It was a really good appt. She confirmed what I had thought, and our DR had agreed with, the Isaac has Sensory, and a little bit of a speech problem. She explained a lot about why Isaac has such a problem with hot and cold. He feels it 3 times more then we do. She explained a lot of what I thought was just bad behavior, or defience, as a problem with sensory. Not that it excuses him from correction of those problems, but it explains why some days are rougher then others. So he will be evaluated by the early intervention program here in HI. They will tell us how much help he needs, and how often. They will come to my house and help Isaac out. We did found out that he is ahead on some things. Like matching shapes, and putting pegs in a hole. The OT told me that he is doing 2 yr gross, and fine motor skills. She said that we need to buy him more challenging toys. So that is good to know. So thank goodness Christmas is right around the corner.

Occupational Therapist

Okay so the Occupational Therapist call me and FINALLY scheduled an appt. She did inform me that ALL the therapist can not work it out in their schedules to meet with him all at once. So we will have A LOT of appt the next few weeks. But this and the Speech Therapist, in my opinion, are the most important. OT is Monday at 9am. Maybe it is better that they all do it separate, since he doesn't do well with new people. Talking about Isaac... we have had a few rough days. TONS, and TONS of crying. Today he cried for 35 mins two different times. I tried to give him away about 5 times today. Everyone of my friends that call today, were asked if they wanted to adopt him. Both times he cried I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was wrong. So after about 15 mins I went in the bathroom, for alittle while cried myself alittle, calmed down some, and then went and rocked him back and forth, while I sung every church song I could think of. And just kept repeating "It's okay" in between every song. Finally he started to calm down, and then just wanted me to keep rocking him, and singing. Sometime he is so cute. I can tell when he wants to me to rock him, because he just tries to rock himself by pushing on me. And if he wants you to sing he'll try to sing to. He will do this until you start doing whatever he wants you to do. So if you stopped by my house to today (and let me tell you a few people did), and it looked like Huricane Noal came through it, that is why.

On a good note.. We found out the Navy will pack and store our stuff, including our CAR!!! This is great news. I wasn't looking forward to packing this house at all. So YEAH for me!!

Djibouti, Africa

We got John's orders today. And it is official John is going to Djibouti, Africa. He is leaving HI on or before Jan 13 and will be returning end of August, beginning of Sept of 2008. I will be leaving around the same time to go live with my parents, depending on the ending of our lease here, PC shows, and plane ticket costs. This is good news, and we are very happy that Heavenly Father blessed us with this opportunity to become debt free including student loans. It is going to be a real blessing. I will miss him, but we know that this is what is right for us.

As for other things going on. Not much really. The Developmentialist has not scheduled an actual appt yet!! :( I am anxious to figure things out with Isaac, and get things started to make sure we get a head start on the help he needs.

UPDATE

Ok we had our appt with our Dr this last week, and after some simple things he reassured us that Isaac doesn't have autism, and pdd. He does again think he has sensory and maybe speech delay, since he has regressed with his words. So that will be checked out by the developmentialist sometime soon. They are suppose to call me by Tuesday to schedule appt. So when we have the appt. I will let you all know what happens with that.

Not much else is new here. Just busy trying to find FREE boxes, not an easy task here. So if you live here, and know where to get some then fill me in. Oh yeah, I've been painting my "Time Machine". Yes I have one, and I am going to go back in time to see....Just kidding. Not about painting it, but about traveling in it. I am doing it for Primary's Sharing Time. John is going to be Ammon, a great missionary from the Book Of Mormon, and he is going to come and share how sharing his testimony with the King converted lots of Lamenities. So that is going to be fun. Oh ya! I forgot to tell you all that I got called to be the 1st counselor in the Primary Presidency. Just in case you are not LDS have not idea what I am talking about. Primary is for all children 18 months to 12 years old, it is their Sunday school. We teach them principles from the Gospel, and how to gain a testimony of it. So I went from the youth to the children. To tell you the truth I am a lot more nervous about the little kids then I was every about the youth, or even the adults when I taught Relief Society or Sunday School. I am not sure why, just makes me nervous.

To keep everyone posted about moving and orders, and when, and where John is going. Not much has changed in that department. But I am leaving here around the 28/29th of Nov. But hopefully soon we will know more about John's time frame. When I know I will post for all of you to know.

A Busy, Upturned Life

Where to start. So much has happened since I last posted. Well lets start with Isaac... two weeks ago today Isaac fell in the bathtub cutting his lip pretty bad. So John and I decided to take him to Tripler Pediatric Walk-In Clinic. We saw a really nice lady that said she thought that he would be fine, but wanted him to come back on Monday to make sure it was healing right. Being the concerned mother that I am, I had no problem with this request. Now Isaac falls a lot, all the time, but this is the first time he had bled A LOT. Well over the weekend Isaac feel 3 more times and got visible marks from his falling. So we march back into the DR office Monday for our 12:45 appt. With concrete rash, and a huge scratch down the side of his face, I had jokingly told John if you don't hear from me by 1:30 know that they have called CPS. Isaac throws a fit in the Nurses Station because the nurse wants to take his pulse. (Not uncommon, doesn't like people to touch him). Throws another fit because the kids in the play area was playing with his favorite toy in the DR office. Also not uncommon for Isaac. He LOVES balls. Okay called in first thing Dr notices more injuries. (OK here comes CPS right) no just more Dr to see if he has a sight problem. Well he never sees that step off the house. They play with him in various ways to see if something is wrong with his sight. No everything seems to be okay. But in this "playing" they see him throw a few more fits. Now to Isaac's defense he has only had a 20-30 min nap, on the way to the DR since this appt is right in his nap time, but to the Dr's he does throw a lot of fits. Well here come more Dr. This time with a lot of questions for me and with a PEDs psychologist. Does he do this, does he do that. Does he play with others, does he have a problem with textures. Does he sleep well. Is he attached to certain toys or people. How many words, how many this and that. All these questions that I had not prepared myself to answer, many I just thought the best I could and hoped for the best. After a 2 hr Dr appt, the psychologist just said if he doesn't get better in 4-6 weeks call me here's my card, and then she left. Not telling me what she was thinking. Just left. Now I know a little bit about things like this and all I could think of was autism. I was terrified. So I started to do a little research of my own via the Internet and other mommies. And found out that that Dr was dumb. I also talked to our PED Dr, who goes to church with us and is a really good friend of ours, he said that that DR told him that Isaac has autism, pdd, and a laundry list of other things that she thought was wrong with him. Most everything I and our DR disagrees with. We are both thinking that Isaac has some tactile issues. He really doesn't like new textures, and new foods, and sand, grass, and FREAKS out if he if he is dirty. And since he has not learned any new words since he was 10 months old and stop saying some of his 2-3 word phrase since about that same time, some speech problems too. But that was just a theory I had until yesterday when I talked to our Dr again. So next week I have an appt with our DR and a PEDs developmentialist. Which will give our some answers. So look for that next week.

Now if that wasn't enough. The NAVY has changed John's orders, and he is going IA (Individual Augmentee). Basically this is an Individual Assignment that they Navy sends John on and in which in will be attached to another unit. Which means a lot of different things to us right now. But the main thing is that John is leaving for Iraq or Africa in NOV!!! For 8-14 months. Since I am then going to go live in Spokane with my family, I am currently working on packing our house and buying plane tickets, figuring out what I am doing with our car, my PC business, and a bunch of other things. I feel like I am going to go crazy. Plus I have 5 PC shows this month and 6 next month. AAAHHHH!!! I have thought about canceling some of them, or turning them to catalog shows, but the extra month will be useful since the Navy is not moving me. Since technically John's duty station is not changing. I am hoping to leave here by the end of NOV since I have a lot to do still.

If Isaac is too Quiet Something is amiss...

So I am in the computer room, making a DVD slide show for all of you and Isaac had gotten bored in here and wanted to go play in his play room. Fine with I will get more done with out him poking all the keys on the keyboard. John was outside mowing the lawn and Isaac kept wanting to watch him anyways. So I just kept at it. Well maybe 20-30 mins later I didn't hear him at all. Well let the picture speak for itself.

Yes that is my phone in my cup of Kool-aid. So if you tried to call our house yesterday, and we didn't answer, that is why. Yes he is on the table. Brace yourself for the next few pictures. The Kool-aid was red, he is not bleeding.

I guess Isaac decided that he wanted the frosted mini wheats that were on the table, and then got side tracked with the phone and the kool-aid. So needless to say we went out after John was done with lawn, and bought a new phone. So if you call today, we will be able to talk to you.

Okay got him off the table and moved the chairs away from the table so he couldn't do that again. And I went back to my DVD this has got to get done. I have tried before,but never succeed (later realized I probably did but the playstation doesn't play those kinda DVDs). So making another DVD abuot our recent vacay and 10 mins later he starts screaming. I run out to the play room and look what I found...

That is a netted thing that he throws balls into and where he is stuck is where the automatically roll back to you. I guess he threw a one of his cars up there and it didn't come back automatically, so the smart thing to do is go in after it. When I started to help him out he freaked out even more, cause he hadn't reached him car yet. Silly Silly Boy!!!

Port Hueneme,CA here we COME!!!

So I know many of you have been periodically checking this post right now for one reason... Where will the Ward's end up. We have decided to go to the one place that we were trying to avoid. Even the detailer thought John was crazy. He said "Do you realize that you are volunteering to go to the Battalion?" He told him to go home and think it over one more day. Well Port Hueneme, CA is a beautiful place, nice and peaceful. But the military side of it is not going to be a fun part. We decided to go there mainly because it is the only place that we feel right about. Heavenly Father has some plan for us there. So with that said. We will be reporting sometime in Mar/Apr. John will either leave from Hawaii to go straight to Japan. Or he will have one month in PH, CA then go to Guam in Mid-April. Isaac and myself will go home, so that we can save lots of mulla, and pay off the car, and my student loans. We are hoping if all works according to the plan by the end of four years, we will have all our debt paid off, and lots of money saved for a down payment on a house. That is my ultimate goal is to buy a house. There will be lots of benefits to this plan. Isaac, and whatever other child(ren) the Lord will bless us with will get to see both sets of Grandparents more often. Along with Aunts, Uncles, and cousins. Because Heaven knows that he has tons. And there are way too many to visit all in one vacay. Believe me we tried that this last time it took us three weeks.

As for me being preggo. The last two weeks we have gotten negative blood test results, weird I know. I have one more this week. And then they start running some test to find out what is going on. This is stumping many people including the Head OB/GYN at Tripler. I am no longer feeling sick, I think that those feelings were left over from the flu I had the week before. My chin is no longer red, and my rings are wearing fine again. So kinda a fluke. Stumping... Stumping... Stumping...

Life and their little Mysteries

So it has been almost a week since I posted. I have been debating whether or not to get one and post that I have been feel nausea and extremely tired. I wanted a test taken before I got on and told the world that I "think" I might be preggo. Many of you know that we have a hard time staying preggo, getting there is not a prob it is the staying there part that is hard. A lot of factors work against us. Rh factor, endometriosis, PCOS, and many DR suspect even genetic problems between DH and I. (Since he had 20w stillborn with his ex-wife) I chart my cycle so that I can know what is going on with it since there are so many things that work against us. And I am to the hour regular of when I start and stop. But this month I am three days late. Normally this means that we are preggo. All the signs were there red chin, nausea (this only happened with Isaac) and allergies to rings. Not always does a late period mean that I am going to have another baby. If that was the case I would have 7 more then I do. Normally when a period is late and I am going to miscarry, I can't get a + on a HPT, but go into the Dr and they draw blood, fun fun fun, and it comes back with some insufficient level of hCG for as far along I as think I am and they tell me to come back in 5 days to retake the levels to see if they go up or down. Normally they go down and they tell me to come back in 5 days to repeat the process all over again. Some go up some go down. We do this until we completely miscarry, they longest we ever when (besides Isaac) we 11w. But today I go in and they tell me there is NO detectable levels of hCG. WHAT?!?!?! Why??? They really don't have any answer to either really. They just told me if I have a lot of cramping accompanied with bleeding to come in. Are you kidding me that is a normal period for me. But either way I have no clue what is going on. Am I pregnant? Who knows. So that is today's Life and their Little Mysteries. When I know more you will to. You can also check out my charts if you want to at http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/1c25d5

Always Listen to Your Mother...

Even when you are 24. My mother told me that I should give the toddler bed another try since he went to bed so nice in it. She said just find a way to block the open part of the toddler bed. So I did that and life is great. Isaac is taking naps longer, and on time, with little coaching for me. Sleeps great at night, wakes up in the morning and is happy as can be. Life is great in the child department is great.

As for the rest of our up turned life (talking about military orders here) it is not going so well. We still don't know if we got San Diego. We were suppose to find out last Wednesday. Now the military is saying Friday. Don't you just love the military and the wonderful way of changing everything with no regard to you. This is stressing me out so bad. If you know me you know I LOVE to plan, everything. (I think that is why babywise works for me) So not being able to plan when and where and how the next four years of my life, is killing me. We are suppose to move in less than 5 months and we don't even know where yet. AAAHHHH!!!!! And on top of all of that, the military mypay website, says that my DH is going to stop being paid on Sept 28 cause he has not picked orders yet. So now I am worried about where I am going and if I am going to have any money next month. So this part of my life is up in the air. I will let you know when and if we ever get word about orders. Hopefully Friday. Cross your fingers and pray with me.

Said Pre-toddler NOT ready for toddler bed

Yesterday's naps were actually doable. He loved his new view of the bed. He played on it while I changed the front panel. Socome nap time, I just sat in a chair, and he laid there, everytime he would get up I would just remind him it was nap time and he needed to lay down. This went on for about 15 mins, not bad for the first few time, very pleased with myself. This part of the day went well. And he slept for 1hr and 1.5 hrs for the next nap. WOAH!!! Good Job Shari. John gets home I tell him all about the big boy that Isaac is, and what a great listener, and napper he was today. *Pat, pat, pat* Bedtime, which we never had a problem with was a completely different story. We never have the same person put him to bed every night, that way he is okay with whom ever puts him down. Now remember Dh is a great husband and father, but not very patient. After 5 mins he comes out with Isaac in hand and says he isn't going to bed. Ok let mom try, after 45 mins of this lay down, go to sleep routine, Isaac is out. Ok that was a little harder, but still doable. Next comes the part that tells me pre-toddler NOT ready. We figured out a couple of days ago that Isaac will sleep throught the night again if he wears less to bed. So he has been doing really well, but last night he woke up twice, put himself back to sleep in a few mins, okay not much change, then 5am rolls around, and Isaac is screaming bloody murder, I jump up as quick as a mom can at 5am, and go to the bed in our closet. (I don't turn on any lights ever, might wake up even more) so I am searching the bed, searching, ok I can hear him he is close to the wall it seems, but nothing. Ok where is he. Panicing, more panic. Is he under the bed? Oh my GOOD gravy the boy has crawled all the way to the wall UNDER the bed. So needless to say we will be put the front crib back on, and figuring out what else to do for naps.

Good Bye Beloved Calling

I have been in the Young Women's Program basically since we got to this ward in some way or another. And I love serving the YW and the program is a beautiful program truly inspired. But Today I had to asked to be released. It saddens me, but I know that it was right. This has been coming for weeks. I stopped going the last few weeks to see if it would make a difference, I have fasted and prayed, and I just know that this is the right thing. We got a new Presidency awhile back. And I was the Personal Progress advisor. I think this was my favorite calling I ever had in the Young Women's because that is the best program for our current youth. But the president, maybe the presidency I am not sure, started to slowly take away my program. And the last three months they have not had it at all. I feel sorry for those girls, they really need that program. But the YW pres was stressing me out, and depressing me beyond what I would like in my life. This woman may as well just call it her program. She has done away with so much of the actual program (like combine YW/YM meetings), and does everything according to her will and whim. She makes up her own rules to the program, and to the gospel, and the handbook (she makes up her own). The YW seem to really like the life of no rules that she has implemented, but what YW wouldn't like to do away with the rules.

Other than that life is the same old same old. Some new developments: I have broken Isaac of the bottle. YEAH!!!! It took awhile, since he was so attached to it, but he has not had one since Tuesday. So this is a good sign. He is a weird kid though, and has refused to take naps in his crib since vacay, so we have been accommodating his hatred of his bed during naps by letting him sleep other places, the couch, the floor, my bed and basically any place I could get him to nap. Not the best thing I know, but whats a Mom to do. Well I recently have to decided to get back to BABYWISE basics and get him doing what I want, not what he wants. This has not gone over well. *note to parents and moms, don't wait in doing this, delay will only cause YOU further pain.* Isaac is protesting at every level. he screams for 65+ mins before sleeping 25 mins. If I let him sleep somewhere else he will sleep for 1.5-2 hrs twice a day. But napping in his crib is truly traumatic for him and I can seem to only bare so much screaming. Tomorrow I am going to change his crib to a toddler bed, to see if the change of scenery will change his will. I will let you all know how this is taken by definant said pre-toddler. As for BABYWISE I love it. Parenting method prefered by me, and recomended by me. I'll let you knowabout the sleep thing and how he is progres with that.

Ok starting with a fresh start

OK tried the blog thing before got prego, and really sick, and then no post came again for two years. And where do you start after two years??? Well all over. So here we are. If you are new and never read the two post hehehehe that I made two years ago the address is http://twinkleeyes72.blogspot.com/ so you can get caught up.

So where are we now. We are still in the same spot that we were before dreadful HAWAII. Not my favorite spot after 6 years I am ready for something new. And that is actually the biggest news that is happening in our house. DH picked orders on Wed. and we will find out next Wed. if we got those orders. They are to San Diego. We will be there for 4 yrs. SD has huge pluses, and big minuses. Pluses family, hum, family, oh already said. It will be closer to my family which I would love to see more. And flights will be cheaper to OR, and WA to see Isaac's grandparents. Big minus might not be able to buy a house, cost of living (still will be cheaper then ripe-off -ville aka HAWAII, they mark gum up 30 cents a PACK, come on it doesn't cost that much per pack of gum, oh not the point right now we can talk about this later) oh more minuses, family j/k. I love my family a lot. John will have an okay deployment schedule, 10 in, 6 months out. Doable I guess. Since we have a hard time getting and staying prego, not the best schedule. And since pregnancy are not the easiest for me, then won't be great. But I have a wonderful sister that says she will move in with me to take care of Isaac if need be. This I am grateful for. Family is wonderful.

Okay what to write what to write. Well life here in HAWAII is not as exciting as one might think. But some other recent developments here are I do Pampered Chef, if you would like to check out my website got to www.pamperedchef.biz/4thechefnU which I love. Cause I can make money around my schedule, and I get to stay home something that is really important to me. Plus I get to entertain all the time, I love to entertain, problem being DH not such a P-A-R-TA-Y animal. So guess what I entertain at other peoples houses. Isaac is almost 15 months WOW life goes by fast. Oh we will sealed in the San Diego Temple on June 19, 2007. WOW that was amazing.

OK well it is late so gotta go. You can check back often to see if I post. I will try to be better about posting more often then the last one.