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.