March 2010

Haydan has decided to skip on going to school and find a full time job. He wants to do a 12 week training thing to be an electrician. But till he gets off his duff and fills out the forms to start that he needs to find something else. He says he knows he needs to find a job but does practically nothing to find one. He wants to do something in the construction business. So if any of you know of any entry level construction jobs around please let us know.
Alex was diagnosed with SPD (sensory processing disorder). I have heard it is extremely closely related to Asburger's autism(sp?). SPD made sense for at first, but now some things aren't starting to fit with the diagnosis. So I am leaning more towards autism. I have also heard that because both of these disorders are so closely related that most professionals get the diagnoses wrong. Anyway ... Ales is supposed to be starting Occupational Therapy and Social Therapy whenever his health insurance company says we can. And because Alex is in medical through DSHS who knows how long anything will take in order to be able to start making appointments. All I know is that Haydan and I are frustrated to no end with Alex and we needed therapy to start like two weeks ago. I love my little boy to death and I just wish I knew how to help him at home in order to help keep Haydan and me sane.
Haydan and I had a parent/teacher conference last week with Olivia's kindergarten teacher. Olivia's teacher is so wonderful. Haydan and I found that Olivia is much smarter than she likes to lead on. We also found out that we are all on the same page as to what Olivia needs to improve on and what is expected of her school and homework wise. Olivia is on a 1st grade reading level and is getting better as each week passes. She has made many new friends and she made them very quick. Which I am very happy about because she has had to change schools 3 times in about 4 months because we were trying to get an apartment of our own (still I know but we have one now and have had one since the end of January thanks to my Friend and now next door neighbor, Jeni). The school Olivia goes to now is not the school that services the specific area that we live. She is and "overflow" student. Meaning that the school that services the area of which we live was all full in all their kindergarten classes so Olivia is bussed to the closest school in the district that has room. But next school year she will start first grade in the school she is supposed to be going to. Which yes, means that she will once again have to switch school and make new friends. But I feel that with her making so many friends and the fact that she made them so fast makes me feel more on the positive side that she will transition just fine.
Nothing much to say about me. I am trying a new way of making sure things get done around the house (well apartment). Everyone has chores and each week we rotate. This was everyone takes part and shares in the responsibility of taking care of the home and I don't get overwhelmed and over worked. So far it has worked. Everyone excluding me obviously, was surprised to see just how much it takes to keep our home running and clean. It was nice to have so much help this last week with the cleaning and picking up. Olivia got the most out of it besides me. She had started to do the dirty dishes all by herself. She needed a little guidance but not much. She did great. Alex got to gather all the dirty clothes each night and make sure they were all in the laundry room on laundry day. Olivia today expressed and interest in trading her dad dirty dishes for taking care of the cat. So we'll do a test run and see how that goes.