Notes on the Week
thane January 14th, 2007
This week Stuart had his first solid food, bananas. He was
TOTALLY into it. Give him a spoon and he puts it in his mouth, then
starts gnawing on it. You bring another loaded spoon close and he
discards the one he has like yesterdays diaper. Grab! Chomp! This was
followed by some outstanding diaper rash. Not an unusual thing with
Stuart. He can get a rash from Johanna LOOKING at the wrong foods. One
missed poo-job and he is bright red for a week.
In other news, Stu went potty on the potty! Not that he had any idea what was going on, but Joh
plopped him on there at an opportune time (right after a nap with a dry
diaper) and BINGO! We have been unable to reproduce the event, however.
I guess that past performance is no indication of future
returns.
Lastly, Joh and I have FINALLY clued
into what is wrong with Tory. Keeping in mind that this is a child that
has never dealt well with change, over the last few weeks we have:
- Had my mother in town for a week.
- Flown her to Ohio without her Father.
- Brought her Father out to Ohio.
- Flown everyone except Gram Ma back to Portland…
- Coming home to house guests!
- Then school starts again, and they have lost the primary teacher…
- and Tory’s favorite teacher…
- and totally rearranged the room.
This
series of event has Tory totally off the script. Acting out, accidents,
hitting, etc., etc.. So, Tory went nowhere on Saturday, and only to
Church on Sunday. Over both days there was a parent tasked to make sure
someone was paying attention to her. Sunday was awesome! Toryseemed to
have some idea of how to function. For the rest of this week, however,
she will be going to school and just about nothing else. No trips to
the store, no sudden shopping trips, and no visits to family. Next
weekend we will assess the progress and see if we can do an early
dinner with theMellinger-Tzetos clan.