Weekly Update - 8 - 14 June 2009

Yay, I'm 127 weeks old today.

Masinja had his 17th ECI session this week. His regular teacher is still on vacation, so the speech therapist that is assigned to his team came instead.

The services coordinator came as well. We spent a great deal of time discussing Masinja's language development as well as the possibility that he has Central Auditory Processining Disorder (CAPD). Ironically, all three of us had researched the disorder prior to the session and we all agreed that Masinja does exhibit some of the characteristics. I told both the speech therapist and the services coordinator that we are just waiting for the referral to be approved and then we are going to have Masinja evaluated. The remainder of the session was spent discussing strategies to teach Masinja the concept of a conversation. The speech therapist suggested doing activities that require taking turns, as this will help Masinja understand that a conversation involves taking turns. Overall, it was a very eventful session. The remainder of the ECI sessions this summer will be with Masinja's regular teacher, so it should be interesting!

As I mentioned in last week's post, Masinja and I had plans to get together with some neighbors for a play date this week. We met up with them and went to the Early Childhood Center on Wednesday. The boys had a great time and I have to admit the Mommies did too :O) That evening we met up with them again and went for a long walk. Afterwards we spent a little while at their house.

I don't know for sure if he picked it up at the Early Childhood Center or if he got it at their house, but Masinja got his first official stomach bug this week. It started Friday night and my poor little man had diarrhea so bad that I had to go and buy more diapers!! While I was on my way to the store, I saw our neighbors out for a walk and I found out that the little boy had had a stomach bug the previous week :O( Poor Masinja has been sick all weekend long. His little tush is extremely raw also. We have tried every diaper rash cream on the market and nothing has helped. It is heartbreaking every time we have to change his diaper, because it hurts so much that he screams and cries. We went and picked up a different brand of diaper rash cream this afternoon and it seems to be helping a little bit. Hopefully this will only last a few more days. At any rate, we plan on taking him to the doctor tomorrow just to be on the safe side and to see if we can get something else for this diaper rash. I know children are supposed to get sick but it is just so hard to watch our little man suffer!!

That's all for now.

Peace,
T.M.M.