Moving right along
Yesterday DH and I met with Dr. H to talk about the girl child. We asked him if there was some sort of sibling discount for therapy and he thought that was HILARIOUS, which I'm guessing is a "no".
We gave him her history, told him about her sometimes bizarre behavior, the depression stuff, the rages, etc. He wants to see her on Saturday, right after swim lessons, to do some personality testing and then talk with her for about an hour. Up to now she's been saying she doesn't want to talk to anyone outside the family, but we've explained that Dr. H can really HELP her, whereas all we (DH and I) can do is offer sympathy, and she kind of knows him from tagging along on the boy child's appointments, so I think it's going to go okay. Fingers crossed! Right now the doc thinks we might be looking at straight depression or bipolar or maybe something else entirely, but he won't really know until he's done some testing and spent some time with her.
Also yesterday, the boy child had his weekly occupational therapy appointment and that went well. His OT is going to work with him on the balance/coordination he needs to be able to ride a bike. He's had bicycles since he was 3 or so, but they've always had training wheels on them. His most recent bike is so big, because HE'S so big, that DH had to go out and buy the training wheels separately. Some of the kids in the neighborhood have made a few comments about the boy still riding with training wheels, so DH took them off several months ago and has tried to work with the boy on riding without them, but it's just not happening. So the OT is going to tackle it, which is swell.
This is one of those things where, if you don't have a kid who's impaired in some way, it might sound weird. Have a professional teach him to ride a bike?! Well, yes. Because he doesn't learn those things the way other kids do. His brain just isn't wired that way. The OT also taught him how to use the swings and the monkey bars on the playground. And eventually, we hope she'll teach him how to ride an escalator. That will be a banner day around here.
Anyway, between the bike riding lessons and the swimming lessons, I'm hoping for a very good summer for the boy child!
So this will be a very busy weekend around here. Saturday both the boy and girl have swim lessons (with the same instructor), then we're off to Dr. H's for pretty much the rest of the afternoon. Sunday is Easter, of course. My folks are coming over here for Easter dinner and we're going to have DH's and the boy child's combined family birthday parties then as well. DH turned 41 yesterday, and the boy will be 10 on Monday! Holy cow! That seems kind of impossible, but you can't argue with math. His "kid party" is next weekend, and he has invited four boys and four girls. I hope some of them show up.
We gave him her history, told him about her sometimes bizarre behavior, the depression stuff, the rages, etc. He wants to see her on Saturday, right after swim lessons, to do some personality testing and then talk with her for about an hour. Up to now she's been saying she doesn't want to talk to anyone outside the family, but we've explained that Dr. H can really HELP her, whereas all we (DH and I) can do is offer sympathy, and she kind of knows him from tagging along on the boy child's appointments, so I think it's going to go okay. Fingers crossed! Right now the doc thinks we might be looking at straight depression or bipolar or maybe something else entirely, but he won't really know until he's done some testing and spent some time with her.
Also yesterday, the boy child had his weekly occupational therapy appointment and that went well. His OT is going to work with him on the balance/coordination he needs to be able to ride a bike. He's had bicycles since he was 3 or so, but they've always had training wheels on them. His most recent bike is so big, because HE'S so big, that DH had to go out and buy the training wheels separately. Some of the kids in the neighborhood have made a few comments about the boy still riding with training wheels, so DH took them off several months ago and has tried to work with the boy on riding without them, but it's just not happening. So the OT is going to tackle it, which is swell.
This is one of those things where, if you don't have a kid who's impaired in some way, it might sound weird. Have a professional teach him to ride a bike?! Well, yes. Because he doesn't learn those things the way other kids do. His brain just isn't wired that way. The OT also taught him how to use the swings and the monkey bars on the playground. And eventually, we hope she'll teach him how to ride an escalator. That will be a banner day around here.
Anyway, between the bike riding lessons and the swimming lessons, I'm hoping for a very good summer for the boy child!
So this will be a very busy weekend around here. Saturday both the boy and girl have swim lessons (with the same instructor), then we're off to Dr. H's for pretty much the rest of the afternoon. Sunday is Easter, of course. My folks are coming over here for Easter dinner and we're going to have DH's and the boy child's combined family birthday parties then as well. DH turned 41 yesterday, and the boy will be 10 on Monday! Holy cow! That seems kind of impossible, but you can't argue with math. His "kid party" is next weekend, and he has invited four boys and four girls. I hope some of them show up.
posted by Miss Anthrope at 6:15 AM
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