Getting It Together

I've literally haven't had the energy to do anything lately. A lot has gone on in the past month since my last post.

Grayson started in-home care on April 6. Mrs. Karina is the best! Grayson tries to test her with his attitude and resistance, but she stands her ground. He has gotten physical with her at times but it's nothing she can't handle. He's getting so good with the things she has him do though. He's a pro at putting any kind of puzzle together that's at his age range. Puzzles are his favorite. They keep him busy for a long time. We love Mrs. Karina! Grayson will be starting speech therapy soon. We did a STAT test to determine if he has autism and that came back as not at risk. We'll be doing a full evaluation soon as well. Grayson has a major curve in his development when it comes to his communication. He doesn't talk and when he does, it's gibberish. You can understand certain things he's saying but his words all run together where you'd have to be paying real good attention to understand him. So Mrs. Karina is teaching him and I ways to communicate where neither one of us is getting frustrated. She's also teaching him more sign language. She's all around just so wonderful!

We started Grayson on Melatonin on April 10 to get him to go to bed at a reasonable hour and it's going great so far. I literally tried everything to get him in a schedule since he was 9 months old and nothing was working. I was so against Melatonin because of the things I've heard about it. It just felt like I was about to drug my child although it's made from natural herbs. I went to his pediatrician to see what we needed to do about his sleeping habits and he suggested Melatonin and his pediatrician has never steered us wrong before. He hasn't had any problems with is so far. He's been going to bed at 9:30 every night and that time gets earlier and earlier as the weeks go by. This week he's been in bed by 8;30 and although he still gets up and comes to our bed in the middle of the night, we're ok with that because at least he's sleeping and not wanting to stay up. He sleeps 12 hours still but hey, 9:30 to 9:30 is way better than 1:00 to 1:00.

Grayson turned 2 on April 23rd. We went to the park that morning and ate breakfast there. We played for about an hour and he had so much fun! There were so many kids there, mainly little girls and boy did Grayson live that up lol. He kissed every single little girl there and they told him how much they loved his curly hair. He grinned from ear to ear. That boy's gonna give us trouble when he's older with swooning those girls. Ha! After the park, he was just full of himself and just wanted to act bad and grown haha! He wouldn't give kisses to anyone for 2 days and wanted to be all independent especially going up and down stairs lol. We had his birthday party on the 25th at our house and boy I didn't know we could fit that many people in our house haha! He had a blast!

I'll post pictures from the past month as soon and I can and I'll be posting more recipes. I literally haven't made any new recipes since my last post that's just how tired I've been. I just haven't had thr energy to do anything lately. It might be time to start taking my iron pills again. It's just been a very hectic month and it'll just keep getting more hectic but we've got this :)