Hi Everyone!
It's been slow on the thread. Im guessing everyone is busy chasing around a child!!
Trixie Giada still isn't saying anything either. She said mama when I was gone on vacation, but doesn't call me that when I am here with her. She will say baba for banana and gumcaco for avocado and deej for done. She will repeat mama, dada, and nonna, but that is it! She started saying uh oh, but not really in context. We saw the dr and he said she is behind in speech but wasn't too concerned. He said if I was really worried we could have her assessed now, but he recommended waiting til 2 to see if she makes any progress. He said he didn't talk til 2.5, but at 2 we could get her assessed and in speech therapy to give her a push. He said not to worry about autism as he saw no signs and she didn't score any risk factors on the questionaire I took. He said he has never seen any child not have risk factors on the questionaire and still end up with autism. That made me feel a lot better. She is also pointing a lot more now, including things of interest, so that has eased my mind a bit. I guess she is just slow to talk.
So I had a huge scare the other day and am still shooken up about it. We had stayed the night at my parents 2 weekends ago. They have a pond and a jacuzzi, but I never worried much about it since the jacuzzi has the hard cover and the pond is gated - right at the front door. I never use the front door to come or go, only the garage. My parents keep the front door latched at the top when giada is there. We were packing up our stuff and giada was playing with legos. I was gathering stuff and asked dh to take the bags to the car. I didn't even realize he went out the front door. I realized I didn't hear giada's legos making noise anymore and i decided to go look for her (I almost didnt, thinking that she just went into the bedroom) I saw the front door open and giada was in the pond. Thank God the pond is only waist high on her and she was walking around in it and not under. I was trying to coax her over to me but she wanted to stay in the middle. Dh came back about 30-60 seconds later and she looked at him and went under. He jumped in and got her and she was fine- actually she was having a grand time and thought it was wonderful. I was so shooken up. I have been terrified, even had dreams, of her drowning and never thought i would be the one to have a child slip by me and go into water. I enrolled her in intensive swimming classes. They are every day for 10 days and she will probably have to do more than that before learning how to swim. We've had 4 and she cries the whole time. She did better the second class, starting to feel comfortable, but on the third class they dunked her and she was not happy at all . Then today she started crying before even getting out of the car. They said it's totally normal and they usually stop crying by the 7th class. I hope it works because I really want to teach her water safety. I keep replaying what happened and thinking what could have happened if the pond was deeper or she decided to go under before we were standing there. Ugh the worry never stops. And now she is climbing up onto our tables and yesterday climbed out of her crib. I have no idea where to put her for a nap now because she just crawls right out. I had to put her in the pack n play next to me last night. She can crawl out but at least I am right there if she tries. This is getting so hard!! Other than removing all the furniture, I have no idea what to do. I can't even go to the bathroom without worrying anymore. Is anyone else going through this. Has anyone else turned around to find LO standing on top of a table?? It's a pub table too so it's really tall- and we have wood floors!!! I still have her froggy jumper thing so I put her in that in the bathroom with me today while I showered and she fell asleep in it since she isn't getting her nap anymore. I guess that will work for now!
How is everyone else?? How is it going with the bed for conor, trixie??
Hispirits Frazer is gorgeous!!! How are your seizures? Are they under control??
I hope everyone is well! Did everyone have a good halloween? GIada was a ladybug and did a little trick or treating. She didn't quite get the hang of it. She took the candy but didn't want to carry her bag- just take the candy out. I'll have to post a pic!
