I'm a happy mama

I shall give some history about miss.s. As a baby she was perfect. She rarily cried or made a sound but did smile and responded to her name and laughed when tickled. She also said mama, dada and roger roger(star wars) at 1 year. She also was crawling at 6 months and walking by 1. She was developing at a normal rate. When she was around 7 months I started a home daycare. I did that for 2.5 years and never had she tried to socialize with the other children, participate in activies or even attempt to sing songs. She was always off in her own little world. Whatever thats fine, she was still very young but I was suprised that she had ZERO interest in anything. Fast foward to April2010 and she was not talking and still babbling. At this point she was almost 3. We had her first speech assessment at TykeTalk. She was diagnosed with moderate/severe speech production delay. So While on the waitlist they gave me face exercises to do with her as we suspected something was going on with her jaw as she was doing weird movements. During that assessment I was asked questions about how well she eats. Up untill about 2 she would choked and gagged on almost everything and I was continually saving her life because she wouldnt chew the food. It didn't take long to make the connection.  17 weeks of speech therapy through TykeTalk and I can happily say my kid is talking and we can understand most of what she says :)

Now we are facing new concerns. Miss.S is a VERY energetic child. Often impulsive and destructive to objects around our home, struggles to focus except on a couple activities(obsesses about her puzzles)and theres been other behaviours that ive wondered about sometimes extreme and sometimes not. During her time at TykeTalk the speech pathologist finally, after struggling to get her to sit still and do the activities, reccommended that she gets a referal for a developmental assessment. I have always had the gut feeling that something was "off" with her but everyone else who doesnt have to be with the kid 24/7 kept telling me "oh shes fine if you take her to the dr they will drug her blah blah blah". I was relieved when finally someone else saw what I saw! I was made to feel terrible for thinking something was different about her. Now I realize it was kinda my fault everyone thought she was perfectly normal because if I knew she was having one of those days where she would get crazy hyper and act up nonstop I just wouldnt take her anywhere and very picky that we have a strict routine because she would be impossible to handle if we broke the routine. Noone was around to see what I live with.  She's been on the waitlist for that assessment for a year because we suspect ADHD. Theres also concerns about how she socializes with other children. She does not directly intereact with them but more plays with them but doing her own thing. Kinda how toddlers play and this has concerned me for some time and I take her to a play group every week outside of school to encourage her to play with other children.

Yesturday I had a meeting at Miss.S school with the teacher, early learning person and the speech pathologist. I was a nervous wreck waiting for this meeting. I've heard so many horror stories from other parents of the schools not being helpful and whatnot. This was not the case. The speech pathologist has been reassessing her over the past couple weeks and is working on a program for her for at school aswell is willing to send home some of the activities as I would like to reinforce what shes doing at the school. The teacher has also noted her lack of focus, how she obsesses about certain things aswell as how she doesn't directly interact with her friends. They did up a report about not only the speech but the social and attention issues for when sophia is assessed. I'm also happy to report that sophia is now in the nomal percentile for speech and language although understanding questions she scored in the 5th percentile but the rest she was scoring around 35th percentile. I realize thats the low end of average but she started at 0 so we are very proud of her.

So many people make comments such as "I don't know how you can handle being with her all day by yourself" but really I'm used to it. Its exhausting work(I wont lie I do sometimes need a break and I do sometimes get frustrated) but I knew becoming a parent was not going to be easy. Her different needs is not what she is, just a part of her and I don't mind. She's healthy, brilliant, happy, hilarious, shes is great with her baby brother and is always helping, she stands up for her friends when she see's they are being mistreated and she's a sweety and I adore her, crazyness and all.

Now excuse me while I go clean glue off my coffee table.

Oh the things we say!

Conversation between Nick and I about my childhood and my birthday this year(which isn't for another couple months but he likes to plan stuff out ahead of time).

Me: As a kid I always made my dad buy me a bag of Ruffles sour cream and onion chips on his way home from the bar. Those are my favourite.
Nick: Well on your birthday instead of playing in cake like Fergie you can roll around in chips because your April and your AWESOME.
Me: Yeah...I could totally pull that off. Fuck cake. I want chips! They have to be Ruffles, none of that lays or cheap Brand stuff.


Its not only Nick and I who have odd conversations.

Miss.V: I'm hungry
Me: *looks around my almost empty kitchen because I avoid grocery stores* Want a banana? We have lots of bananas!
Miss.V: Does it have vitamin A?
Me: uh...sure?
Miss.V: *stares at mom with attitude because she's stupid and doesn't know anything about bananas*
Me: Listen kid eat the banana or don't, I don't care. Its healthy, EVERYONE knows that.
Miss.V: OK OK I will eat the banana.

Of course I was then left wondering why the hell my kids question everything we feed them and why after all the junk she insists on eatings she's suddenly concerned about vitamins. I don't think I will ever understand the way her mind works.

Random sh!t on the internet day!

I think everyone knows I have a youtube addiction.... so here yea go!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3rbv_QbAU4&list=FL9UyHI5ADFWoN0fdZv2SL4g&index=3&feature=plpp_video   ahaha he's so sexy with his socks and moves. I can't stop giggling!

Here's something special that I would like to share. My husband is the star in this indiana jone style shoplifting video from back in the day. He was in the broadcasting class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o6QE8czNqE&list=FL9UyHI5ADFWoN0fdZv2SL4g&index=44&feature=plpp_video

Pictures I had meant to post last week but totally didn't..

..because I'm an unorganized lazy person with alot of kids who take up the little energy I have...and the hole gettin sick thing didn't help because honestly strep I don't need your help falling behind and can do so on my own. Oh and you can go away please so I can swallow without pain. definatly still sufferin but I'm awake so I probably shouldn't complain even though thats one of my many talents. 

So here are some pictures of my super adorable kids during our cookie making adventure last week. I havent posted anything about them recently and thought I should since its kinda promised in the "About me" bit on the side  over there somewhere---->
Plus all the other mommies are posting about their kids and make me look like a crazy unloving parent. Which im not because instead of posting about my kids all day I do stuff with them. I'm sure when they are older they are gonna look back on their childhood and go "making cookies and having nerf gun wars with mom was fun" while other peoples kids will be like remember the days when our mom was so focused on us that instead of playing she was posting about us shitting ourselves on facebook and blogs? Pull out the nerf guns and shoot at your kids instead of posting about them!  My kids are at school and napping so im allowed to post about them :P I win!

                                          Rykers first chocolate chip cookie.

mmmm yummyness!

Porn for pregnant ladies!

Hahahahaha came across this blog and thought this was funny.
http://www.pregnantchicken.com/pregnant-chicken-blog/2012/1/17/porn-for-pregnant-ladies.html

You don't have to be pregnant to enjoy this!




Ok I promise a real post later but Miss.S and Rye are staring at me like I have 2 heads for laughing at my laptop and I must go entertain them before school and naptime or they may try to murder me in my sleep. 

Tip of the day

Toothpaste does not belong in ones eye. It does not feel good.

I have now done my duty in protecting you. Your welcome.

Explanation for my disapearing act plus some

I'm a magician! muahaha!!!


Ok I'm actually not but it would be cool if I was right?  So instead of being awesome I got strep throat and slept Sat, Sun and Monday. Most of that was a blur of Nick shoving painkillers and infection fighting pills down my throat and my fever being so bad that everything was spinning and my cat had 5 heads. I'm still currently high off a mixture of advil, tylonal and antibiotics so if this post seems a tad weird then you know why. So I will start  with posting a comic I made last week but never had a chance to post due to my non magical abilities of getting very VERY sick. Than I shall post instructions on how to make garlicky creamy potato soup that I promised Jordan. The comic introduces Jordan. He's awesome and feeds me alcohol. I'm sure encouraging my drinking is probably a bad idea but I don't mind.

Ok so here's how to make potato soup. Take how ever many potatos you feel like making soupy. If you want lots I reccomend more than 5 large potatoes....maybe like 7-10. Cut skin off and chop into smaller peices. If you have managed to get this far put your chopped potato into a big pot with lots of water and boil untill easily mashable. Drain about half the water when ready to mash it up. Ok so now that the potato is mashed add however much minced garlic you want, salt, pepper, oregano, shredded carrots, celery and chopped onion. Then add come coffee cream and milk untill it looks soupy. Taste test alot during this to make sure you add enough salt and garlic. You can probably add sour cream if you want. I havent froze any yet  so I can't say if it freezes well but im sure it will freeze just fine. It will thicken in fridge so when reheating you will need to add a little milk. This is not an exact recipe as I just started mixing this stuff together one night when I hadnt hit up the grocery store and lacked food and had a hungry family to feed so I just did what looked good with what I had.  Oh don't forget to wash the potatos.

Your welcome Jordan.. Thanks for making me screw up the blog routine that I was attempting to create but I did it for you because you are a cherished friend who promised me skyrim and its my blog so I create the rules and break them if I want to. I wont be posting a recipe tomorrow. I'll possibly post another comic though because theres another one I made last week that I had planned to share but didn't due to sleeping for 3 days with fever induced hallucinations. If ya'll are worried the cat is back down to one head and theres no need to rush him to the vet for some weird growing extra heads disease.