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I haven't posted too much lately, at least since Aeline was here.
Elijah has started speaking more, which is awesome. We are up to a good 10-15 words I would venture. He has some two-three word phrases. But they are packaged. Like "there you are" is a phrase he can do, but he doesn't know how to say, "there" "you" or "are" by themselves. We have started speaking to him in two word sentences, so when I should be the one getting something, I say "mommy get". He has started getting this and sort of using it. It will say "help.. help" "mommmmmmm help" and I ask "mom get?" and he claps and shakes his head. We are getting so much more communication, and it has helped change his behavior. It is a great feeling, to not have constant meltdowns and freakouts when I don't understand him or he doesn't get me. We had a occupational therapist review, thinking we needed to consider him for autism review/therapy we scheduled the appointment, because he is still having a lot of sensory based concerns. They came in and resoundingly said he cannot be autistic. That day he was on the best behavior I had ever seen. But it is great to hear. As long as we keep with speech therapy, they are going to see him once a month to go over sensory concerns. Ways to get him stop toe walking, pocketing food, still mouthing EVERYTHING, and requiring certain pressure points to be met for sleep and relaxation. For example, he will not sleep on his belly anymore, or if he does not alone. He needs something pressed up against his back and side. So the easiest way for him to sleep is on his side with a pillow up against his back. This is the only way we have found that he will sleep alone. If he rolls on his belly, and he isn't yet fully asleep he will wake up.
School started yesterday, and I am apprehensive to say the least. I have 6 courses total. English, Cost Accounting, Intermediate Accounting 1, Finance, Information systems, and Yoga. I had Yoga last night, and I can feel EVERY muscle in my back. I don't sit up straight because I have such a large chest that my top half just gives up. I feel great, so I am looking forward to continuing it and feeling awesome for the wedding.. The rest of the course load is a bit intensive though. A lot to do, a lot of time to focus and I hope I can do it because next sesmster I am hoping to add a class to this same schedule. Tax Accounting, Yoga, Intermediate Accounting 2, some kind of science, marketing, Auditing, and one other class. If I can pull of A- to B- I will keep a 7 class semester spring. If not, it will have to be 6. Which questions my graduation semester. I can do it though.
Wedding stuff. Oh... wedding. So the concern I have about the cake MAY be resolved. I contacted my friend's sister. Her mom is the baker I have been trying to get in touch with. She said she will have her mother call me, so if that happens this week I will be really excited. Just 40 days till my wedding. FORTY DAYS!! Can I get another month please??? LOL. I am truly going to miss all the planning, but I don't like it too much right now. I had a meeting with my venue coordinator, and they added a stage to the one corner of the room. At first I was very concerned and upset, that it was going to detract from the room, take up space and just cause problems. Well we found a great solution. The head table will be placed on the stage. And our "head" table with be a 10 seater round top. It wouldn't hold a square/rectangular table, and I didn't want a sweethear table, so we got exactly what we wanted. We have only received 35 RSVP's, for a yes. That means there is still about... 100 people out there who haven't responded.
And here is a question, which I will probably pose to the wedding communities but I thought I would ask you guys first: I have people I wanted to invite, but couldn't because family literally took up our entire guest list. We could invite them now, and have the $$ for them as we already budgeted for other people, but I have no more invitations. Well.. I have invitations, I have no more envelopes. So do I get cheap invitations that are nothing like our other ones, hand them invitations without envelopes (they are pocketfolds so they wouldn't just be getting one piece of paper, or do I send them a nice email? These people are already well aware of the size of my family, so they weren't even expecting invitations, so this will be a nice surprise for them.
Weight!!!!! I am down to 267. Yes.. 20 lbs I have lost in just 3 weeks. I didn't take my medicine one day because it was too late and I would have been up till 6 AM with the need to do a billion things.. and I see my problem. I am constantly feeling a need to eat. Sometimes I am hungry, but it isn't always, because the amount I ate that one day was rediculous. It was probably about 3,000 calories. Right now I can take about 1,400 calories. When I don't take the medicine my stomach feels like a bottomless pit. I can't function and the only thing I can think about is food. I don't know it if is a mental process, or if my brain and my stomach just aren't working together, but thats my problem. I have to see my doc on 10th again, to review if I should continue with the medicine, and I am going to ask that I do... but I am going to ask her about that. I know that is my problem so I just need to find an answer, and quick, because I can not be 200+ for my life. I will not have that happen.
Alright! I think that is all I have for now. It's a lot. thanks for sticking through it.. lol.
Elijah has started speaking more, which is awesome. We are up to a good 10-15 words I would venture. He has some two-three word phrases. But they are packaged. Like "there you are" is a phrase he can do, but he doesn't know how to say, "there" "you" or "are" by themselves. We have started speaking to him in two word sentences, so when I should be the one getting something, I say "mommy get". He has started getting this and sort of using it. It will say "help.. help" "mommmmmmm help" and I ask "mom get?" and he claps and shakes his head. We are getting so much more communication, and it has helped change his behavior. It is a great feeling, to not have constant meltdowns and freakouts when I don't understand him or he doesn't get me. We had a occupational therapist review, thinking we needed to consider him for autism review/therapy we scheduled the appointment, because he is still having a lot of sensory based concerns. They came in and resoundingly said he cannot be autistic. That day he was on the best behavior I had ever seen. But it is great to hear. As long as we keep with speech therapy, they are going to see him once a month to go over sensory concerns. Ways to get him stop toe walking, pocketing food, still mouthing EVERYTHING, and requiring certain pressure points to be met for sleep and relaxation. For example, he will not sleep on his belly anymore, or if he does not alone. He needs something pressed up against his back and side. So the easiest way for him to sleep is on his side with a pillow up against his back. This is the only way we have found that he will sleep alone. If he rolls on his belly, and he isn't yet fully asleep he will wake up.
School started yesterday, and I am apprehensive to say the least. I have 6 courses total. English, Cost Accounting, Intermediate Accounting 1, Finance, Information systems, and Yoga. I had Yoga last night, and I can feel EVERY muscle in my back. I don't sit up straight because I have such a large chest that my top half just gives up. I feel great, so I am looking forward to continuing it and feeling awesome for the wedding.. The rest of the course load is a bit intensive though. A lot to do, a lot of time to focus and I hope I can do it because next sesmster I am hoping to add a class to this same schedule. Tax Accounting, Yoga, Intermediate Accounting 2, some kind of science, marketing, Auditing, and one other class. If I can pull of A- to B- I will keep a 7 class semester spring. If not, it will have to be 6. Which questions my graduation semester. I can do it though.
Wedding stuff. Oh... wedding. So the concern I have about the cake MAY be resolved. I contacted my friend's sister. Her mom is the baker I have been trying to get in touch with. She said she will have her mother call me, so if that happens this week I will be really excited. Just 40 days till my wedding. FORTY DAYS!! Can I get another month please??? LOL. I am truly going to miss all the planning, but I don't like it too much right now. I had a meeting with my venue coordinator, and they added a stage to the one corner of the room. At first I was very concerned and upset, that it was going to detract from the room, take up space and just cause problems. Well we found a great solution. The head table will be placed on the stage. And our "head" table with be a 10 seater round top. It wouldn't hold a square/rectangular table, and I didn't want a sweethear table, so we got exactly what we wanted. We have only received 35 RSVP's, for a yes. That means there is still about... 100 people out there who haven't responded.
And here is a question, which I will probably pose to the wedding communities but I thought I would ask you guys first: I have people I wanted to invite, but couldn't because family literally took up our entire guest list. We could invite them now, and have the $$ for them as we already budgeted for other people, but I have no more invitations. Well.. I have invitations, I have no more envelopes. So do I get cheap invitations that are nothing like our other ones, hand them invitations without envelopes (they are pocketfolds so they wouldn't just be getting one piece of paper, or do I send them a nice email? These people are already well aware of the size of my family, so they weren't even expecting invitations, so this will be a nice surprise for them.
Weight!!!!! I am down to 267. Yes.. 20 lbs I have lost in just 3 weeks. I didn't take my medicine one day because it was too late and I would have been up till 6 AM with the need to do a billion things.. and I see my problem. I am constantly feeling a need to eat. Sometimes I am hungry, but it isn't always, because the amount I ate that one day was rediculous. It was probably about 3,000 calories. Right now I can take about 1,400 calories. When I don't take the medicine my stomach feels like a bottomless pit. I can't function and the only thing I can think about is food. I don't know it if is a mental process, or if my brain and my stomach just aren't working together, but thats my problem. I have to see my doc on 10th again, to review if I should continue with the medicine, and I am going to ask that I do... but I am going to ask her about that. I know that is my problem so I just need to find an answer, and quick, because I can not be 200+ for my life. I will not have that happen.
Alright! I think that is all I have for now. It's a lot. thanks for sticking through it.. lol.