Sorry no updates lately....I have been super busy at home and work lately! So, we are grateful that Nick actually made it to school every day last week and did not throw up at all! His G.I. specialist had us double his Prevacid dose which seems to have solved the problem! For some reason Nick has been pretty insistent about wearing some type of hat to school every day this week. The first day it was the huge Dr. Seuss looking hat; the second day was a Finding Nemo ball cap; third day was his winter hat with the silly ear flaps and the last day was his Santa hat, which he also slept in the night before! For a long time he insisted on wearing a bicycle helmet all day at school. Not sure exactly if this is a sensory issue or if it's just a phase. If it is a sensory problem, then at least he's solving it in an appropriate way! I always had a hard time understanding exactly how sensory issues affect these kiddos until I finally heard it explained like this.......kids with sensory problems are actually physically affected by stuff. For instance, something that is a loud noise to us might feel like someone is poking them inside their ear with a sharp pin. Once I understood that sensory problems can affect kids in a painful way, I became a lot more understanding. I remember one time when Nick's pediatrician was trying to look in his ears with her little tool thing. Nick was screaming hysterically and thrashing and we were physically restraining him. She finally got frustrated and says, "Nick, calm down...it's not that big of a deal!" I corrected her real quick on that and told her, "well, if you had sensory problems and it was painful to you, then it might be a real big deal!" She got real quiet after that :)
Another interesting thing that Nick has been doing lately is asking to go to Monkey Bizness. It's a place in a nearby local mall that has inflatable slides, obstacle courses and jumping house type things. When we go there, Nick is in HEAVEN!! For him it's a sensory wonderland...LOL. We take him there when he gets antsy and just let him play until his little heart is content and he's exhausted. So......he used to think whenever we asked him if he wanted to play that we were going to Monkey Bizness. Now, he understands the name of the place and he has been saying, "Monkey?" for the past several days. Finally, on Wednesday, his daddy told him that he would take him to Monkey Bizness on Thursday. I don't think he really expected to have to live up to the promise. You better believe that one of the first things out of Nick's mouth on Thursday morning was "Monkey?" LOL. I promised him a visit after school and called daddy at work to tell him that Nick was calling his bluff!! Sure enough, daddy and grandpa took Nick and Max to Monkey Bizness for over an hour that night. I'm so proud of Nick for making requests and understanding the answer!
Nick has also astounded me this week by pouring his own milk at lunch and dinner time. He said, "want milk" at dinner the other night and grabbed it as soon as I opened the fridge. He walked right over to the table and poured it into his glass like a big dog! No spilling at all! I was so impressed...not sure if they have been working on this in school or if he just decided to do it. Of course, he drinks rice milk, so it's a small carton, but I was still very proud. We have finally, definitively switched him over from sippy cups to regular cups! He used to cry, throw a fit and refuse to even try to drink from an open cup! Now he drinks from one all the time and rarely ever has spills. We are working on putting him to bed without a sippy cup of water. We figure this should help with potty training also. Right now he is going without a cup of water at bedtime about 75% of the time. He does still sometimes ask, "drink?" but we are slowly getting there. Yay for progress!
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