Taking the Scenic Route

Nothing particularly dramatic, but this week has really been tough.  Zora is pretty much crying all.the.time.  She is teething again, and I think she just had a growth spurt, she seems gassy, we are fighting a diaper rash on and off, and possibly has a sore throat (probably from crying).  She is mostly wanting me, but even in my arms she is still only consoled some of the time.  She isn’t running a fever or anything like that, just grumpy and not sleeping well, which is making her even more grumpy.  I am so tired of hearing crying.  It is so frustrating and I can’t seem to ‘fix’ it. 

Zane, on the other hand, is doing great.  He is getting back to normal and making gains again.  He is ever so slightly becoming more understandable and we are able to pick out words in his spontaneous phrases that have always sounded like speech, but we could never understand.  He made me my first valentine on Monday in ST (and a second one yesterday at preschool), and made one for his daddy today.  *happy tears* For each of us he came running into the apartment all excited to give it to us.  I am the luckiest mama EVER. 

I can’t find the second one.  I keep putting it up next to my computer so I can look at it and he keeps absconding with it.  lol.  I guess he is proud of it.  I’ll post pictures of it tomorrow, hopefully the second one will turn up.

On other notes, I need to remember to tell the individual therapy ST people tomorrow that he needs to have ‘how to grab the pencil so you can hold it correctly’ re-inforced.  In every other ST/OT setting, we are working on pencil grip, although I am insisting on teaching it in both hands because he isn’t showing a preference and I don’t think it is right to decide for him.  (I think that is irritating everybody except the OT simply because it isn’t convienient for them).  I also need to talk to the preschool teacher because I am going to go clean off on one of the ST student teachers if she doesn’t back off a bit.  She greets Zane by grabbing his shoulders and getting right up into his face to try and garner eye contact…like 3-4 inches from his nose.  Dude, eye contact is not important enough to torture him over it.  I know plenty of people with less that spectacular eye contact and I wouldn’t DREAM of getting into their face like that.  Just because he is a kid is no reason to not treat him with the same respect you would treat an adult.  She also, evidently, kept making ‘helpful’ comments to dh when he was the one attending the Valentine workshop at the school with Zane.  Zach said she was downright insulting to him, treating him like it was a total novelty that the Dad was the one helping instead of mom.  He said it was everything he could do not to lose it with her.