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
I decided to join the knitting olympics – goodness knows I need something to distract myself. Wish me luck. Maybe mom would like to join me… Click on the icon on the left to find out more information.
OK, so we were in the hospital from 9 am until 1 pm and we got Edda’s vision looked at by the senior doctor in charge of the eye center at the Children’s hospital. Everything is fine, nothing abnormal. So, hearing is fine, vision is fine. Those 2 things check out OK, yah!
There were a lot of people in the waiting room, at some point it seemed as if there were over 150 people waiting, you have patients, siblings, parents all milling about the place and you can see that lots of kids have lots of problems and everyone is dealing with it and is OK. We pretty much saw it all, kids with Downs syndrome, developmental problems, wheelchair-bound, surgeries, etc, etc, etc. It kind of reminds us about problems that everyone has, that not everyone else is perfect and living problem-free lives.
Now our priority is getting Edda into physical/speech and language therapy. The doctor at the clinic is referring us to public physical therapy places, but these places will take 2 months to get through the waiting lists. I’m working connections at the American School to figure out what private programs are available.
Also, on Thursday, we are suppose to talk to the developmental pediatrician who is going to refer us to a neurologist to do an assessment on Edda.
Edda was a trooper today, lots of eye drops and people shining bright lights into her eyes, but hardly any complaining from her. Vince also did great with the babysitter next door, no complaints going home with her and eating lunch at her house.
So as soon as I realized that I’m going to be spending a lot of time in doctor’s offices, I needed to find someone to take care of Vince. Auntie Helen, our neighbor, is so kind to help us out. She actually runs and home-based child care thing-y. She’s raised 4 kids (all grown) and usually has 2 toddlers in her care. She’s going to pick Vince up from school today and look after him until we get home. This is what we packed for lunch today.
Soy milk
PB&J sandwich
Banana
Apple
Carrot sticks
Yogurt
Gronola bar
Cashews
It’s a lot, but Vince loves packing lunch.