Owen woke up very early and then he wanted to make sure he was going to see his grandma. He asked me over and over and over again. His world has been turned upside down by all the changes in his life but that’s what life is all about, changes. Any and every change is something to him. It can be something like having to go a different way than he was expecting or major changes like my hair. These changes are not things he will ever forget either so it is more about finding ways to help him cope with all the changes and working through them with him.
He was ready to go to grandma’s and I was ready to sit. Every time I thought he was going to let me fall back asleep for a little bit he started talking about going again. It’s been so hard for him the last few months. Being sick and then having all the snow days completely turned him around. Those moments in time sent him into extra anxious moments. As soon as he gets off the bus on Fridays he is checking to make sure he is going back to school on Monday. I can tell they are working with him about his spring break coming up. He has been counting the days of when it starts and when it ends.
My heart hurts knowing that spring break will also be hard on him. I pray and I pray some more that by then he will want to go more places. It will be a long week if I can’t get him to go do any activities. I am trying to show him different places we can go. He used to want to ride his bike but since we got his new one he won’t even ride it. He says he wants a tricycle so when we move I want to get him one.
He walked up to me and read what I had on my nightgown. He said, “coffee.” I said how many coffee do you see. He said, “Four coffee coffee coffee coffee.” These are the moments I am reminded of when the doctors told me he might not talk. And I told them all the same thing he will talk. Every single day I tell him he is amazing and can do anything he sets his mind to. When he was little he would scream all the time. I would tell him I know he can use his voice and he can ask for what he wants. I wanted him to know I believed in him and he could do it.
We got ready and I took him to his grandma’s house. It was around noon before we went. Between pure exhaustion and the rain, I waited to take him. He had a great visit with his grandma. She wore “new blue pants” and she said he talked about her wearing the “wrong ones” but he didn’t scream at her so that was progress.
When we got home we ate our dinner and he talked to me about watching eyeballs. He always wants to talk about teeth and eyeballs. He loves watching videos about teeth and he found videos of people that have contact lenses. I don’t want to watch any of it and that makes him laugh even harder.
I never know which elephant to look at in the room. I try to ignore them all and focus on the good stuff. That can be hard some days but I try to not let the challenges of life outweigh the goodness I see. My sweet baby O’s laugh is one of the many things that makes my heart happy and tells me it is going to be fine. Find happiness in the quiet moments, joy in the loud ones, and gratitude when you lie down at night. Smiles to all and donut daze!
He was ready to go to grandma’s and I was ready to sit. Every time I thought he was going to let me fall back asleep for a little bit he started talking about going again. It’s been so hard for him the last few months. Being sick and then having all the snow days completely turned him around. Those moments in time sent him into extra anxious moments. As soon as he gets off the bus on Fridays he is checking to make sure he is going back to school on Monday. I can tell they are working with him about his spring break coming up. He has been counting the days of when it starts and when it ends.
My heart hurts knowing that spring break will also be hard on him. I pray and I pray some more that by then he will want to go more places. It will be a long week if I can’t get him to go do any activities. I am trying to show him different places we can go. He used to want to ride his bike but since we got his new one he won’t even ride it. He says he wants a tricycle so when we move I want to get him one.
He walked up to me and read what I had on my nightgown. He said, “coffee.” I said how many coffee do you see. He said, “Four coffee coffee coffee coffee.” These are the moments I am reminded of when the doctors told me he might not talk. And I told them all the same thing he will talk. Every single day I tell him he is amazing and can do anything he sets his mind to. When he was little he would scream all the time. I would tell him I know he can use his voice and he can ask for what he wants. I wanted him to know I believed in him and he could do it.
We got ready and I took him to his grandma’s house. It was around noon before we went. Between pure exhaustion and the rain, I waited to take him. He had a great visit with his grandma. She wore “new blue pants” and she said he talked about her wearing the “wrong ones” but he didn’t scream at her so that was progress.
When we got home we ate our dinner and he talked to me about watching eyeballs. He always wants to talk about teeth and eyeballs. He loves watching videos about teeth and he found videos of people that have contact lenses. I don’t want to watch any of it and that makes him laugh even harder.
I never know which elephant to look at in the room. I try to ignore them all and focus on the good stuff. That can be hard some days but I try to not let the challenges of life outweigh the goodness I see. My sweet baby O’s laugh is one of the many things that makes my heart happy and tells me it is going to be fine. Find happiness in the quiet moments, joy in the loud ones, and gratitude when you lie down at night. Smiles to all and donut daze!
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