Month: January 2006

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Edda’s lack of communication skills really manifests itself in many ways. She doesn’t really turn her head in response to her name; when she bites someone and you yell “No!”, your displeasure doesn’t register in her brain; when she wakes up in an odd place (a friend’s house, the mall or even facing the wrong way on her bed), she’s frightened and I will stand 3 inches away from her face and say, “I’m here, mama’s here..” and she won’t realize that I’m there with her and that she doesn’t need to be scared. I’m afraid that these are all autistic tendencies.

I’ve been reading a few blogs about mothers raising autistic children and the stories and images give me pause.

Mom, have you seen this Korean soap opera about a palace girl in the kitchen of the king? We are watching it an enjoying it quite a bit, we have 3 seasons and almost done with the first one, so if you haven’t seen it we’ll mail it to you. There is a lot about cooking and it is super popular in Korea.

So it’s been a struggle for me today. I’ve been seriously thinking that Edda may never be able to communicate with me in the way that I had imagined when I became a mother. It is a sobering and depressing thought. It’s funny about these mood swings, yesterday I was perfectly fine and OK with the fact that Edda’s going to be different from other kids, today I feel less strong. What happened between yesterday and today? Dunno.

We have an appoinment with a speech pathologist on Monday afternoon at the American School and then an assesment at the therapy place on Friday.

Vince and I made a huge mess in the kitchen making empanadas for dinner. He loves to make dinner, he just doesn’t like to eat dinner. Tonight he made a big show about serving himself dinner and waiting for it to cool off and then cutting the empanadas in half and then finally not eating a single bite!

This is how Edda spends her day, but these past 2 days or so, she’s been letting go of the little shelf. She also enjoys eating legos.

As you can see, I have a mountain of laundry.

Her thyroid is just fine, doing it’s thyroid thing.

Well, we just knew a kid could not speak a word until he was 3. Right now, he is as normal as anyone.

So keep up the faith while trying the best 🙂

Edda is using the little shelf that holds the computer to learn to walk. Today she spent hours just holding on to the shelf and then letting go and shifting her weight from one foot to the other. I figure if I leave the house it’ll be 2 fewer hours of her practicing her balance, so we are stuck at home. Vince played computer games all afternoon and managed to turn our computer screen a rainbow of colors with a magnet he found. Jeremy had to work late today as things are heating up with BIG meeting happening on Friday and projects are coming to a head. We are making an appointment with a speech pathologist at the American School on Monday who will help guide us with the therapy options here in Singapore. We are starting to fill out long paperwork for the therapy place and hopefully we can start that next week. Blah.. I’m tired, but nothing really scheduled for the rest of the week…

Okay, so I stole one of Doris’ New Year Resolutions – I’m selling something on ebay.

I’m in the middle of reorganizing all my stuff since Choon moved, and I had half my stuff at his place. Now I have all this junk I don’t need or use.

Here is the link to my auction