But I've been crazy busy. First off I want to update you on our little princess's arrival. She was born September 9th at 12:21 pm after only 3 1/2 hours of labor in just one quick push. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 10 ounces, and 20 inches long. She's a true blessing.
She's been such a wonderful baby! She sleeps soundly (with Mommy and Daddy of course) and is trying to learn how to sit up and crawl. She loves to turn herself in circles when laying down, especially if something's out of reach. Her brother and sister adore her.
I've been so irritated lately, trying to get services for Christian. First his pediatrician refers him to this one place. We wait for them to call. A week or so goes by with no word so I call...leave a message. Two more weeks go by...STILL no calls. So I call AGAIN. Leave another message. Finally a week after that I get in touch with someone. Then they proceed to tell me that they don't take kids into their therapeutic day program if they've already been diagnosed? (WTF?) Then says he may have been referred to one of the doctors there. SO...instead of checking for me....I'm supposed to call his pediatrician back. So I do. Only to find out she's had her baby and is on maternity leave. So now I'm screwed...and quite pissed off. Here we are again, stuck with NO help. He still hasn't started speech therapy, and really needs occupational therapy to help his diet, his hygiene, & possibly his behavior. SO I go to this other place that the lady at the other place suggested. I call and set up an appointment to get him a case manager. I get an appointment with their intake guy the next day so I'm all "yeah maybe we're going to get somewhere!" Go in and see him, then a few days later come back in for an evaulation by one of their guys. Ok so then...he gets a case manager...very sweet lady...comes to our house and asks me all these questions, talks about plans and what I want to accomplish (all while Christian dozes on the couch and will NOT wake up). So she tells me she has to make up a permanent plan within 30 days. So she leaves and I'm thinking "alright finally we're getting somewhere to get him the help he needs and deserves." Yeah...nothing yet. I found out a week ago that the intake guy there called here and left a message when we weren't home about Christian was referred there and he didn't see an assessment done on him and if we still wanted services to call blah blah blah and I am PISSED! I'm like....DUDE! I already talked to you! He just HAD an assessment done by one of THEIR psychologists!!! WTF did you do with the records??? Ok so once AGAIN I call over there and leave him a message. No call returned. I called again today and left ANOTHER message. I am pisssed. Where do they find these idiots??? Can they NOT pick up a damn phone and give you a quick call back? Even if it's just to say I got your message but I'm really busy so I will give you a call in such and such amount of time? I mean seriously. This is my son's future in their hands and they are really letting me down. I just don't understand how they lost track of what THEY were doing to begin with. The farthest I have gotten so far is the damn school system. Can you believe that crap? But yeah that's what's going on with him. Poor guy just got over an abscessed tooth. It was awful. The whole side of his face swoll up on the right, after the hospital tried to tell us it wasn't abscessed. I've had them before...I know what to look for, and had no doubt in my mind thats what it was. So I ended up having to take him in to the dentist that afternoon (he had went to the hospital at 5:30am before the swelling had really started, hence why we didn't go to the dentist first). He just got it pulled this past Friday and is back to his bouncy silly self. He has to have dental work done in the OR on March 11th so I am not looking forward to that.
Well Monica is now 10 years old and boy did that make me feel old! She celebrated with her friends and family here at our apartment. First I took her and her cousin Haley to La Di Dah (should be called La Di Duh) for a "makeover" for her party. Man...that place is full of crap. They charge you an arm and leg for crap you can do at home for a fraction of the cost. But it was for her birthday so we did it anyways. Even Monica said it wasn't worth the money (and that's bad). So we get back and the party begins. We had a great turn out, and even ran out of cake (wasn't sure if it was because it tasted so good, or because it had a picture of the Jonas Brothers covering it LOL). She got so much stuff, including her cell phone and a lot of money. Then the girls stay the night. I had I think 9 girls here total. It was wild. Of course there was fighting and drama, but a lot of fun too. They made up dances and we took video of it (though it was so dark you can barely see). Finally they all crashed in the living room floor around 4am. It was a lot of fun.
Well that's about it for now. I'm sorry it's been so long since I've updated but I will try to make it back more often from now on. Hopefully we will get things going. But if not I'm sure you'll hear about it! :) Have a great Saint Patrick's!
April
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