Three Years Old
On the Road to Success
This week I hunkered down and focused on two things at home, Forest’s brushing and Logan’s potty training. And I’m happy to say that we are making great headway with both.
Forest is wearing clothes that he hasn’t worn in months and gets into the car seat without any upsets. The car [...]
Weekend in Photos
Despite Brad having to work a lot this weekend, we still managed to get outside and enjoy some of the beautiful spring weather in Austin. Saturday we spent the afternoon at the Austin Zoo, Sunday morning I took the boys to a newly discovered park just down the street and Sunday afternoon we flew [...]
Is It Possible?
We started “brushing” Forest on Wednesday for his Tactile Defensiveness, today is Saturday. That’s what, three days? Yesterday I noticed that he didn’t fret about getting into his car seat and we had no trouble when he put on his pjs. Things that normally can leave us both in tears. This [...]
Tactile Defensiveness Occupational Therapy Begins
Wednesday’s occupational therapy appointment was pretty straight forward. She did some basic tests to figure out where Forest is developmentally (kid is super smart, in case you were wondering) and then I changed his shirt so that she could see how he reacts. She showed me how to use this small medical brush [...]
Snow in Austin
First off, tomorrow morning I’m taking Forest in for this Occupational Therapy evaluation tomorrow. We are looking forward to hearing what they have to say.
And in case you didn’t hear, it snowed in Austin today. We woke at 6 AM hearing the sleet falling and found that it was accumulating into [...]
Struggles and Solutions
I don’t remember when or how it started but it crept up over time and has become such a major part of our lives. Every single day we struggle with getting Forest dressed. His clothes hurt him, he says. Sometimes it’s a full on mini tantrum, other times it’s a few moments [...]
Potty Training, Twin A
I started off the month of February dedicated to getting Logan potty trained. Forest has been trained since September/October (I don’t remember exactly and am too lazy to go look it up here) but Logan still shows absolutely no interest. He’s completely uninterested in the sticker chart, the M&Ms or any other reward [...]
The Magic of Change
With the passing of the pacifier came a new development that I hadn’t expected. Forest doesn’t always nap now. Like Logan, it’s hit or miss and the days of the one hour afternoon quiet can’t be assumed. *sigh* Forest doesn’t do as well as Logan without a nap but he definitely [...]
Pacifier? What pacifier?
Forest has been a pacifier junkie since birth. Before having kids I had a very strong dislike of pacifiers but was willing to let it slide for bedtimes. Logan gave his up at five months but we hit 3 years old with Forest and I was so ready to say goodbye to that [...]
Merry Christmas
The day we went in for the boys 3 year check up, Logan was running a low grade fever and both Forest and I were a bit under the weather as well with coughs and sniffles. A few days later and Forest is doing ok with only a small cough but Logan and I [...]
