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!!