Updates...a Quickie Post

Real quick!! 

Elise's daddy had reconstructive knee surgery and has Elise's super sensitivities to drugs and is struggling with both the recovery and the side effects of the drugs that are supposed to be "helping" him.  And so I am going crazy...

Elise is enjoying her new classes and new teachers...and is putting everybody through their paces...looking for the chinks in their armour...which she will then assess how she can use them...seriously...this is her MO.  She may not have a super IQ, but DANG can she read people...

I finally got a call back from the ABR (sedated hearing test people) and the communication technology specialists.  We have the ABR scheduled for the first of September and the communication assessment for the middle of November.  I am really looking forward to the results of both...AND I wasn't forced to break into their offices and threaten their first born...but just barely under the wire...  :)

I also finally found a speech therapist that she will be able to attend regularly!  YAY!

Also, in my stress of everything, I have fallen back on my own comfort food...Indian food...MMmmmmmm!  And you want to know something?  My kids all like it...!!  Elise is all but licking the bowls...  Peanuts?  No.  Grapes?  Uh...NO!  Curry?  Cumin?  Potent spices?  Delish!! 
teehee!

Also, she wept copiously when I went to swim laps at the pool...she wanted to go something awful...I think I'm going to try and take her to play one time soon...maybe if I get brave, I'll attempt swimming lessons.  SERIOUSLY.  Even typing that makes my chest constrict in stress a little...but maybe...

Dancin'

We spent the first 5 years of Elise's life praying that she would gain weight and get ON the stinkin' charts...and now, we are a little concerned about her activity level and snack intakes.  The doctors are not concerned yet.  They assure me that she is still in the healthy range, but she is certainly edging up to the top of the bracket.  She is still growing up and they aren't worried about her increase in weight.

I am not concerned for now.  I am concerned about the habits that are being formed.  I am pushing the high protein  snacks, getting away from the highly processed carbohydrates.  I am trying to get her into the habit of exercise now, so if and when she needs to, it will not be a foreign torture. 

This has been difficult.  She is not terribly coordinated.  She does not follow rules well enough to jump into typical peer sports.  She can run, and run she does in Target and down the halls at school...on the road in our neighborhood?  Not so much.  So I've been trying to figure out how to up the energy output.

Our golden fall-back, is actually a sensory discovery.  She LOVES the input that she gets bouncing on the trampoline.  She'll jump just like a crazy thing for quite a while.  So that's what we are doing here at home.  But she needs more...like the rest of us, one thing gets boring after a while. 

I've considered joining a pool, as a family, just for her...but they none of them are close by...

Today I stumbled on a surpise.  I turned waaay up the tunes on my phone while I was cooking...and Charlotte was lured in like a moth to a flame...and we commenced to jump around like crazy people.  And Elise was lured in by the crazy that was going down.  And she joined us in the jumping around like crazy people.  For 45 minutes.  No lie.  Really?  I've been worrying for 6 months?  And it's under my nose and FREE and IN MY HOUSE!?!?!?

Cool.

Tomorrow I have a date with iTunes.  I'll be uploading all of the songs that Elise particularly loves from all her movies...and Voila!!  We have a workout!!!! 

I'll let you know how it goes....