Evals & Christmas Eve.. Instant Relief

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christmas, evaluations, family, holiday, love, presents, sensory processing disorder, SPD

Well.. this was the day I have been waiting for. Got Lylah up, bathed and dressed (without any major issues-thank the great havens). Then out the door we went to the “talking doctor”- Lylah has been around doctors A LOT starting from when she was 3 months old and she knows the different types of doctors and she started freaking out she was going to need shots or they were going to stick things in here ear, so I reassured her that this was only a doctor we were going to sit and talk with.

We were there for about two hours, lots of questions, seeing how much Lylah would talk to the doctor, which she played shy. Towards the end Lylah was able to show a little of her true self- I was trying to talk to the doctor and answer his questions and Lylah was laying on my lap or sitting on my lap, putting her face in mine, poking me, tapping me on the head with the pen, talking non stop to no one really, laying upside down on the couch (which was embarrassing but now that I know WHY she does all of these things, it all makes much more sense)… and then the doctor said the magic words. Lylah has sensory processing disorder with a mix of anxiety. Hopefully with time she will grow out of the anxiety! He doesn’t feel she is on the autism spectrum at this time, we will assess again later, he wants to see how she develops socially when she gets older.  *insert sighs of relief* Now we can get her started in play therapy and anything else that may help. I am also looking into a weighted blanket to help her sleeping at night – possibly in her own bed, all night, please and thank you!!! This Momma would LOVE to have her bed back!

After all that was done- we went on with our regular Christmas Eve traditions. We baked cookies.. had lunch.. girls got to open their gifts from family members who mail them to us. And then we went to church- which was wonderful as always.


They got to go on stage to have story time with Pastor Sam. And all while Lylah was slouching in her seat, laying down in her seat, standing in the aisle trying to twirl, turning around to stare at the person sitting behind her- I was embarrassed, but I was able to smile and calmly remind her how we sit properly instead of freaking out. Because now I understand, she simply cannot help herself. All I can do is stay calm and remind her how we are supposed to sit, I cannot force her to do so-this will start a fit, which I am sure people will appreciate a lot less than my fidgety child.

We then went home and our elf on the shelf left her farewell letter with our Christmas jammies which we immediately put on, watched reindeercam to see Santa take off.. left santa his milk and cookies

and off to bed we went… to await Santa’s arrival aka Mommy had to wrap everything and put it under the tree lol

Teeth and Lights

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christmas, dentists, holidays, kids, lights, santa

So yesterday was the dreaded, Lylah’s dental work day. What a fiasco that was. Lylah was being put to sleep for dental work because this poor child would not even let the dentist look in her mouth or clean her teeth, and she had cavities that needed to be filled. So we signed her up for “moonlight” dentistry. Where they put the child to sleep, do the dental work and then ta-da all done. I like this idea because it keeps them from having fears of dentist (like I have).Yes it is a little more risky because they are under anesthesia. So they are not supposed to eat or drink after midnight.. no problem, I figured we would have a morning appointment, I can handle this. No, they call and tell me my appointment is for 12:30PM. Umm.. yea, no, that is not going to fly.. so by the time she eats it will almost be dinner time? I called at 9:30am because she had already stated “I am so hungry my tummy is growling like a bear” they told us to go in at 10:30.. Thank goodness! She was given her giggle juice (this is what I call it, it makes them act semi-drunk and silly because they feel good and it keeps them from having memories of going into the OR) She has had giggle juice before and I was totally prepared this time. Last time I cried my eyes out watching my 2 year old acting drunk.

“An ELEVATOR MOMMY. I gonna go in the elevator”(there were no elevators)
“Give me your fingers, I gonna bite your nails and your bad fingers”
“I like to bounce. There is the blanket fridge. I love you momma”

Those were all the “happy” moments. The dentist took out her two front loose teeth that she was having anxiety over, so we were happy the tooth fairy was going to come! A little concerned because the adult teeth are already growing in, but they are too far back, we are hoping time will help to correct itself. The not so happy moments. Watching your child cry and not being able to help, nothing you do helps, only to discover she woke up as they were taking the breathing tube out of her nose. 😦 Yea kiddo, I would be sad too and scared. So we left there and the crying continued in the car for most of the ride home, then we had some silly talk. Little by little the Lylah I know and love came back to us. And them we went out with my friend Heidi and Lyz and the rest of the clan to see some amazing Christmas lights and the girls finally got to see Santa (I feel like such a bad mom because they hadn’t seen him yet)

The girls with Avery and Delany. A and Kay are around the same age and D and Ly are around the same age. They had fun together 🙂

I finished the teacher ornaments last night and got them ready to go to school with the girls today. Tonight we will be working on school bus candy bars for all the bus drivers!

Can we say slacker?

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christmas, elf on the shelf, holiday concert, kids, snow, violin

I have been off the grid for a bit, but it has been good. I have officially gotten myself all on the same page. I am out of my funk and ready for what life has to bring..which has been busy! Let me first tell you some exciting news! Children and Youth came for another visit this past wednesday. I was rolling my eyes about the whole thing because, well, I don’t see why she needs to be coming to check up on us anyway. Really, I do get it, they have to look into every call they get and yadda yadda but if anyone KNOWS knows me, they would know I have zero need for these people in my life. So we sit down and she says “Is there anything I can help you with?” so I kinda laughed, and I said I am sure I could find something.. it would be nice to have a maid, a babysitter (for some me time or so maybe I could possibly date), someone to do my grocery shopping, a personal driver.. the list could seriously go on and on. But I told her really I had everything under control, no matter how crazy it gets, I still got this. So she told me that I should expect a letter in the mail because she is going to ask her supervisor to close the case. Praise the lord!

Kayleigh has been a busy bee since the beginning of school, learning the violin. She does not practice as much as she should, but she can’t seem to keep a focus on too much for too long anyhow (she suffers from ADHD) but for someone who doesn’t really practice, she is doing amazing 🙂 She had her holiday concert Friday night because Tuesday’s was postponed from snow.

She is wearing the lime green top all the way to the left. She was extra excited about this because Grandma, Daddy and Aunt Kimmy drove all the way from NJ just to see her play for 3 minutes! It was an extra special evening!

I love them. A little more every day!

Now about that snow. Tuesday I had off from work and we had a snow day, so me and the girls were home together and we had such a great time! It was snowman building snow!

Which also means….

Snowball fighting snow too!!

Life has been crazy but amazing. I am blessed. Now a little update on Lylah. It is always something with this one. We were supposed to get evaluated on Tuesday, but snow prevented that, so now we have to reschedule! We also went to the Dr last week for another ear infection! Loooks as though the tube finally fell out (she had tubes put it 3 years ago) so because of constant ear infections, we have to go back to the Children’s Hospital to see her ENT and see what our next plan of action is. More than likely she will need a tube in that ear, but I really have no idea what they are gonna do. I just want them to fix my baby..  I am worried with all these horrible ear infections it is going to hurt her hearing.

It’s almost Christmas and I am sooooooooo ready.. so I shall leave you with this..