New Beginnings

Well, Happy New year to you all! Hope this blog finds everyone happy, healthy, and most importantly, in good spirits.

On New Year's day, we got into a fender bender up the street from our house. Trey didn't see a parked police car, and hit it quite hard, shaving off our right front fender, entirely! We were all ok, but kinda like.. what a day for it to happen on. This delayed our arrival at the inlaw's for New Year's Day dinner. We got there okay though. We were able to drive it for I think 2-3 days before we could drop it off and get it repaired.

The Brady family is doing well. Jamie after his long break had no problems readjusting back to going to his special Preschool. From what his teacher says, he is signing Help and more more regularly, and that's great! He loves going to school.

Jamie started Primary the first of the year. His first week he had me stay with him. It was fine though.. it was a very big change for him to go through and he had to know it was ok, and this was his new class or routine. Last Sunday, Jamie isn't able to sit down for very long, so they needed my help when they go into Singing time into Primary (his 2nd week!) and I was able to leave a few minutes into the class time, and he was fine without me for an entire hour! Woo hooo! I was very excited about that.

We were able to get Jamie a new car seat and I really like it. He looks comfy in it and it is easy for us to use, which is important. This should be his last one he will need. :D

Oh today we got back our Honda Accord.. and it looks Brand New. They did a good job on it. It will be nice to have our car back. I can drive again with Trey..

Trey is pursuing a Master's degree in E-Business. The sad thing is that it's going to be on Sunday the same time as church :( The only thing we could do is go and have Trey drop us off at the church :) The good thing too.. is Trey will graduate when we have originally planned.. we'll have to see what happens.

Lots of News and lots of stuff going on. Will post more soon.

I can't believe it!

I know I've been MIA for a month.. Jamie's been enjoying school and the holidays are fast approaching. Jamie Signed Help!! That was exciting. This brings Jamie's vocabulary up to 3 words.. mostly signs, and the word no. He'll get there.
We got some blood test results from the Dr's office. Turns out Jamie is low on the protein 'Ferritin' that helps store iron in the body. So we will supplement him with iron drops so he can get those stores back up again. Hopefully the supplement will help him sleep better, and in turn, help his attention span.
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays. Happy new year!

A GREAT DAY!

I decided to start trying to teach him sign language again. I started with the simple sign, 'more'. Basically you put all your fingers together and tap them together. That's the sign for 'more'.

I started having him pay attention to what I was doing with his hands. I did the sign for 'more' and I had to prompt him a couple times. The third time, he did it!! He touches his fingers together, but It's a SIGN!!! I was so excited!!!
All I need to do now is to sign when I ask him if he wants 'more' of something, and he will do it!! We practiced all day yesterday!! What a great Day!!

Jamie loves the bus! One of his first days when we woke up late and he missed the bus..he cried and got upset!!! Poor guy! (We did drive him to school that day, though.)

He is doing so great! He is sooo smart! Hopefully he can learn another sign.. I am so excited!! That MADE MY DAY!!! Oh we had so much fun yesterday.

An Auspicious Day

Well, We got the diagnosis. What was hard for me is that All along I didn't think it would be it. Jamie has high-functioning Autism. That's right. Dr. Harkins also told us that he does have some sensory integration problems, but that kids with autism can have sensory problems.

When I read the review, I cried. It made me feel better when the doctor told me that his prognosis was great and that he will do just fine.
I talked to my mom about it and she said she knew two girls with HF (High functioning) autism. One is eight, and she said her mom says she had it, and my mom's like WHAT??.. She couldn't even tell. So that's a good thing.

That's what we found out.

He must be very special.. and he's so fun to be with.

News Coming about Jamie

As most of you know, We've gotten help with Jamie from Early Intervention with Speech and Occupational therapy for his sensory issues.
We've been crazy busy with the ARD for the PPCD class he's in, and testing from the Developmental Pediatrician Jamie's been seeing. They've done lots of testing, and asking him to do different things, like feeding a toy baby, asking him to try and follow directions, that sort of thing.
We've also been busy with the school's assessment with him too.

We have a parent conference at 11:30 tomorrow, and then Dr Harkins, (the Dev. pediatrician) will give her diagnosis for Jamie. It will be just us parents talking to her. I am excited. Trey thinks I'm crazy to be excited, but I am just a Mommy looking for some answers, and ways to help Jamie.

I will keep you posted.

:D
Will write more later.

Jamie Antics

A few days ago I was on the phone with someone and I realized things were a little too quiet. This is what I found. (This was afterschool one day!)



Yea. That there is Jamie. I guess he likes it.. Look how he's playing in it.


Here he was after he got up from the kitchen floor.

What a Kid!



What a mess!

Lots of News and Updates

I never mean to go very long without posting, but it happens.

We wanted Jamie to go Trick or treating, but he had a fever that night, so that was a no go. Maybe next year.

Jamie started school on his birthday! He is going to this PPCD (Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities) class and it's from about 7:30-10:30am everyday. The bus comes earlier but drops him off later. Jamie really really likes it. He even pulls me toward the bus when he knows it's coming.

He's doing good. He's been going for about two weeks(?) I think.