This morning, I was feeding Zachariah rice cereal when Aaron came up and looked interested. I offered him some on the tip of my finger and he ate it. He stuck his tongue out, made a face and said "ewww." This afternoon when Zachariah was eating green beans for lunch, I offered them to Aaron. He very emphatically said no, and ran to the other side of the room. I offered several times and the response was the same.
~~Meghan (the nanny)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sick kid
Luke has scarlet fever, which I thought sounded scary but it's just strep with an icky, itchy rash. Last night I had wiggly kid in my bed kicking me until 2:30 a.m. until I gave up and went to sleep in his bed. He was kind enough to share the strep with me, but fortunately I didn't get the rash.
When we were chosing decorations for Halloween, Luke told me that he wanted lots of scary x-rays. Took a minute to figure out - he meant skeletons!
When we were chosing decorations for Halloween, Luke told me that he wanted lots of scary x-rays. Took a minute to figure out - he meant skeletons!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The only issue is TV
Nice feedback from Raha's foster placement worker - he told her that he thinks this placement is working because this is the family is the one he was always meant to be with. The only thing wrong with us? We don't let him watch enough T.V.
Aaron said "belbow (elbow)" "atain (airplane)" "earring" "buhbuhbuy (broccoli)" and "my turn" today. Very chatty.
Aaron said "belbow (elbow)" "atain (airplane)" "earring" "buhbuhbuy (broccoli)" and "my turn" today. Very chatty.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Aaron Begins Signing
Aaron began his sign language lessons today with Emily. Here she is showing him how to say, "my turn".
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Fall Pleasures
I think this is the first year I feel like I'm getting the full benefit of fall and Halloween! Rich is out of the hospital and feeling ok, so we went to Fox Hollow Farm's family celebration on Saturday with the two Williams families, and the kids had a ball climbing on the hay castle, picking pumpkins, and going on a hay ride. The other pics are from last week at the zoo, which was followed by a fabulous meal at the Vietnam Kitchen. It was Luke's first time using chopsticks, and he may have managed to eat a decent bellyfull of food.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Surprises
Rich is in the hospital, probably for a couple more days. On Tuesday he had a severe headache that wasn't improved by prescription painkillers and a decongestant. When I came home from work he wasn't making much sense and he was obviously in a lot of pain so I took him to the ER. They quickly took him to the back and gave him narcotics to relieve the intensity of the pain. After a CAT scan, chest xray, blood work, and a spinal tap, he's been diagnosed with viral meningitis.
He's in the hospital for pain management because the virus has to run its course. Viral meningitis isn't dangerous neurologically or life threatening, but it is characterized by painful headaches because the virus attacks the lining of brain. It also isn't very contagious, so his doctor thinks it is unlikely that anyone else in the family will get it. Whew. Right now he's getting 3 mg of morphine every two hours and percocet every 4 hours. He isn't nearly as stoned as I'd expect, but the pain is at least at a level that he isn't miserable. He'll be in the hospital for at least a couple more days.
Meghan has been amazing. She's here for the second night and is doing far more than I ever could expect from a friend and caregiver. Dad is coming up Friday to relieve her a bit because she's exhausted.
Boys are fine - Raha really worried initially but doing fine as long as he get regular updates and knows what to expect. Aaron asking for Daddy, and Luke asks when he's coming home. I'm with Meghan - exhausted.
He's in the hospital for pain management because the virus has to run its course. Viral meningitis isn't dangerous neurologically or life threatening, but it is characterized by painful headaches because the virus attacks the lining of brain. It also isn't very contagious, so his doctor thinks it is unlikely that anyone else in the family will get it. Whew. Right now he's getting 3 mg of morphine every two hours and percocet every 4 hours. He isn't nearly as stoned as I'd expect, but the pain is at least at a level that he isn't miserable. He'll be in the hospital for at least a couple more days.
Meghan has been amazing. She's here for the second night and is doing far more than I ever could expect from a friend and caregiver. Dad is coming up Friday to relieve her a bit because she's exhausted.
Boys are fine - Raha really worried initially but doing fine as long as he get regular updates and knows what to expect. Aaron asking for Daddy, and Luke asks when he's coming home. I'm with Meghan - exhausted.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Back in the blog & Aaron discovers his power
Our Internet service has been out of service for a week, following a week of crazy work schedules, so it seems like this is all terribly out of date. I'll try to get some photos from the last couple of weeks up this weekend.
Aaron has had a small explosion of vocabulary. Today when I came home he told me "elbow" while pointing at the appropriate body part, asked for a "Opsicle" from the freezer, and then proceeded to say "NO" about twenty times. This is the first day I've heard him really use the word "NO" and he seems pretty pleased with himself. He's reached the point that he will mimic words on command (Luke treats this like a party trick -- "Aaron, say ____") and we can't count or list his words anymore. At the the football game on Tuesday he said "Me go" and pointed to the parking lot when he was tired, so he's working his way into simple sentences. He is mixing up B and D sounds and regularly leaving of the first sound of words, so that's what Austin is focusing on right now.
At his 2 year check up we found out that he's fallen lower on the growth chart -- down to 5th percentile for weight and 10th percentile for height. The nurse practitioner checked, and there is an increased chance of kidney reflux in asymptomatic siblings (Luke had kidney reflux, but eventually his body matured and the valves began working correctly). We're going to test for this at Kosair on Tuesday. It's an awful test - catheter and a giant x-ray machine, but I learned my lesson with Luke and requested a mild sedative for Aaron for the pain and scare-factor. Rich is taking Aaron and I think he's the one who really needs the sedative -- he's very anxious.
Raha is doing incredibly well. After a couple of pretty serious bumps in the last month, he's been really cooperative and fun recently. The conflicts were primarily testing and arguing with me, but we've worked through those issues fairly well. His grades for the first term were: A in Language Arts, A in math, A in science, A in art, B in social studies, and B in P.E. We're really proud of him, especially since this is the first time he's had mainstream classes. He's almost done with the football season and didn't make the basketball team, so our schedule should relax a bit.
We're joining the Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church. Jenny and Mitch invited us, thinking that Raha would like their active and racially diverse youth group. He LOVES it and is enthusiastically going to their activities a couple of times a week. The adults in the church are wonderful - interesting, welcoming, and very willing to argue their way through a Sunday school class on contemporary issues. The church building itself is lovely. It's small and simple - a couple hundred years old with a giant pipe organ.
I'm presenting at the KY Math Teacher's conference on Saturday. Not prepared, overwhelmed, situation normal I guess.
Aaron has had a small explosion of vocabulary. Today when I came home he told me "elbow" while pointing at the appropriate body part, asked for a "Opsicle" from the freezer, and then proceeded to say "NO" about twenty times. This is the first day I've heard him really use the word "NO" and he seems pretty pleased with himself. He's reached the point that he will mimic words on command (Luke treats this like a party trick -- "Aaron, say ____") and we can't count or list his words anymore. At the the football game on Tuesday he said "Me go" and pointed to the parking lot when he was tired, so he's working his way into simple sentences. He is mixing up B and D sounds and regularly leaving of the first sound of words, so that's what Austin is focusing on right now.
At his 2 year check up we found out that he's fallen lower on the growth chart -- down to 5th percentile for weight and 10th percentile for height. The nurse practitioner checked, and there is an increased chance of kidney reflux in asymptomatic siblings (Luke had kidney reflux, but eventually his body matured and the valves began working correctly). We're going to test for this at Kosair on Tuesday. It's an awful test - catheter and a giant x-ray machine, but I learned my lesson with Luke and requested a mild sedative for Aaron for the pain and scare-factor. Rich is taking Aaron and I think he's the one who really needs the sedative -- he's very anxious.
Raha is doing incredibly well. After a couple of pretty serious bumps in the last month, he's been really cooperative and fun recently. The conflicts were primarily testing and arguing with me, but we've worked through those issues fairly well. His grades for the first term were: A in Language Arts, A in math, A in science, A in art, B in social studies, and B in P.E. We're really proud of him, especially since this is the first time he's had mainstream classes. He's almost done with the football season and didn't make the basketball team, so our schedule should relax a bit.
We're joining the Pewee Valley Presbyterian Church. Jenny and Mitch invited us, thinking that Raha would like their active and racially diverse youth group. He LOVES it and is enthusiastically going to their activities a couple of times a week. The adults in the church are wonderful - interesting, welcoming, and very willing to argue their way through a Sunday school class on contemporary issues. The church building itself is lovely. It's small and simple - a couple hundred years old with a giant pipe organ.
I'm presenting at the KY Math Teacher's conference on Saturday. Not prepared, overwhelmed, situation normal I guess.
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