Still Here...

I regret to admit that I am so behind on updating the blog and blog reading.  In fact, I have never been this before behind and it's killing me.  I hope to get myself updated this weekend as I really feel like I miss you all!

There has been a LOT going on here and it's been quite challenging to keep up with it all.  This post is mostly to devoted to things that are just popping into my head so it will probably be quite random.  

We are in the midst of transitioning Colin to preschool, which sounds so crazy to admit it.  We have had two meetings just to talk about the process and tour Colin's new school, one meeting for a developmental evaluation and then one coming up for a speech and physical evaluation.  After that we will meet with the CST team about creating his IEP for the school year.  We have unofficially discussed what our true wishes are and I feel like they have been pretty accommodating to the main issues we are trying to address.  I had a hard time with the evaluation because it brought to light SO MANY things that Colin is unable to do at this time.  However, those kinds of mopey days are short-lived as I know that we have so much to look forward to when Colin does start school.  

We are really sad that Colin's time at his current school will be coming to an end as we will be unable to transport him there for the afternoon.  In Colin's current class, he has a friend whose mom is a teacher at the school he will be going to and when we ran into her today, Colin just melted into her arms.  It was love at first site for me so hoping that just maybe our luck will be that Colin can be put into her class.  I can just see things happening there...

We are still having a lot of difficulties when it comes to Colin's eating and are becoming more and more concerned as the 6 things that Colin was eating are now dwindling into a list of 3.  I am hoping that as we exhaust all of our options, the ENT doctor will be able to potentially draw a connection to his tonsils.  If you look at the back of his throat, Colin's tonsils are currently touching each other.  I can't imagine that feels very good when eating.  However, Colin has started a new strange trend where he is asking for a pancake at bedtime.  We have been appeasing because we so desperately want him eating more, but I don't like that timing either.  He still pushes them away and we have to feed them to him, but we are just happy at times he is eating SOMETHING.

Last night was an awful night as Chris was traveling through the night with the basketball team to get home and I worked until 11:30 trying to get school work done.  I hadn't been asleep for more than an hour when Kailey woke up crying.  I tried ignoring it for a bit, but when i went into her room, she was laying in a PILE of chunky vomit.  With Chris being gone, I had to get her changed, bathed, bed stripped and soothed by myself (very difficult at 2am!).  She seemed pretty upset so I spent the rest of the night trying to get her comfortable and asleep.  Chris finally walked in the door at 5am-ish, I slept for about 20 minutes, and then my alarm went off to get up and get ready for the day.  Fun times...

Amazingly, she was fine all day so I'm not sure what that was about...

Otherwise, we are just trucking along here.  We are anxiously awaiting for a time when we can all just relax together which seems so far away right now.  We have a 1st birthday less than 2 weeks away!