Ex boyfriend moved out at the end of May. We are not currently on speaking terms...
Still waiting to be swept off my feet and fall madly in love...
Got a temporary job, that is now over. Once again I find myself a "stay at home" mom.
Got a new puppy... a "Chuggle" Pug, Chihuahua, Beagle; her name is Piper.
And now for the more "intense" catch up:
If you are my facebook "friend" you will know that in the last few weeks my posts have been sort of depressing or different. Well, I was depressed. I was very upset. At my son's 18 month check up they diagnosed him with a developmental delay. They do not know what exactly is wrong with him, or why but that he will need therapy every week to try and get him to where he needs to be. His pediatrician recommended that I have Blake evaluated by a specialist at The Little Red Schoolhouse; a resource for parents and children with developmental disabilities living in Snohomish County. (You can read more about them here: http://www.littlered.org/) Two weeks ago Nancy from Little Red came to our home and did an intensive 2 hour evaluation with a speech therapist that works on her team. They came to the conclusion that my son is delayed in several different areas including; social-emotional, speech, cognitive and adaptability. I have had questions about my son's development for a very long time and expected this to be the outcome, yet I was devastated. No one wants their baby to be different, to be autistic or have a disability, whether it be seen or unseen. This completely threw me off. I could barley function, I ended up quitting my temp job because I couldn't even focus clearly at work. Everyone and everything bothered me. I wouldn't even pick up the phone to talk to my best friend. I didn't even tell Blake's bio dad until two days ago, to which he said "Well there's nothing you can do about it so you shouldn't be sad." must be easy to say for someone who doesn't ever see their child. In fact, he actually told me he didn't want to be a part of Blake's life anymore... not that I'm surprised or really care too much since he is a complete waste of a human being. I just wish Blake could have a strong male influence growing up... a whole different subject.
Anyway, somehow I was able to pull myself up from the depths of listening to "Turn The Page" on repeat (Cause I'm a HUGE Bob Seger fan...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe7yOccqdxI) and focus on reality and cleaning my life up. We met with Nancy again a week later to come up with our Early Intervention Plan, goals for Blake to meet and become a better communicator. We will start therapy on this coming Friday where we will work on name recognition (because he rarely responds to his name) and anticipating everyday actions such as clothing and diaper changes. I will update you on how this goes after our session on Friday. I also decided that we needed to rid our lives of toxins, since we do not know the reasons behind Blake's delay I want to do everything possible to make sure its nothing environmental. My long term goal is to put him on the Autism, Asperger's, ADHD diet (you can read more about it here:http://www.autismweb.com/diet.htm) , but it takes a lot of work so I thought I would start slowly. Making homemade shampoo (Johnson's and Johnson's are a HUGE No, No! Read about it here: http://safecosmetics.org/downloads/NoMoreToxicTub_Mar09Report.pdf) was one of our first changes, followed by BPA free, and only eating FRESH which means if it doesn't go bad within a week, we won't be eating it.... On my next post I will tell you exactly how we eat "fresh", my shampoo recipe and becoming BPA free.
That's it for now. Someone's up from his nap!
<3 Arielle
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