This summer is just flying by, I cannot believe we're already halfway into July. This week is the last week of summer school, and all the other summer activities are winding down this week too. Swim class was over last week, soccer is over this week, gymnastics were over two weeks ago. So, now we are going to start some traveling to visit our families before school starts on September 5th. I will be leaving Rhinelander next Saturday to spend a week or two in Kansas City. We will come back to Rhinelander in time for Kindra to attend basketball camp for a week in August, and then we will leave for a two and a half week vacation to visit Pavan's family in Texas, as well as some friends of ours in Madison, WI.
The girls left for Girl Scout camp today. We drove them to camp around 130 this afternoon. Camp is in a town called Irma, WI....about 45 minutes from here. Irma is off the highway, right before you get to Merrill, which is where the girls take dance class. We got the girls settled into their cabins, took them to meet their counselors, and then waited a few minutes to make sure they were ok. They are going to have such a great time, but it was strange leaving them there! I think this week will show us how much we rely on the girls around here, Lord knows I'll be busy picking up the house and taking care of the little ones all on my own. Especially since Pavan is on call nearly every day this week!
Noah has been doing great in school. Wednesday afternoon his class had a tea party, which Amaya and I attended. It was a lot of fun, they served fruit, tea, and brownies. They sang some songs, and the next day his class was on the front page of the newspaper singing I'm a Little Teapot. That's a small town for you!
I met with Noah's doctor on Thursday about all of the testing he'd done, and all of the paperwork Pavan and I had filled out regarding Noah's behavior problems. They hesitate to diagnose a three year old with any psychological disorder, but everything does point to Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). Nothing we didn't already suspect. His intelligence testing is above normal, and the doctor was still talking about his great sense of humor! She agrees that he has so much going for him, and a lot of the traits that drive us crazy about him could serve him well in life. He's certainly a born leader! BUT we have to learn how to help him control himself better, and as parents we have to learn how to best help him and keep ourselves from going insane. So, she gave us the name of another therapist here in Rhinelander who will help us on the parenting end, give us very specific ideas of how to handle situations with Noah. Also, she suggested we take Noah in to see an occupational therapist to have him tested for a sensory integration disorder. This is something I'd actually been wondering about for awhile, because of Noah's tendency to gag and throw up his food. It's been a little better recently, but some days he can't seem to eat anything without gagging. When I told the doctor about that, she thought about the sensory integration problems and thought it would be best to have him tested for that by an OT. However, he's doing great in school, so I have lots of hope that he will be fine. I just want to make sure we are doing everything in our power to give him the best shot at life possible. That's our responsibility as his parents, and we are determined not to fail him.
Amaya is doing great, as always. She loves going into Noah's classroom at school, so much that I have to fight her to get her to leave!! I've resorted to leaving her in the car with Kindra when I drop Noah off in the mornings! I hope she loves school this much when it's her turn to start preschool in a couple of years!
I'd better get going. It's late, and we have to get up early to get Noah to school. I'll try to write more soon, but I can't promise anything!! Hopefully things will settle down some when school is back in session this fall, and I'll be able to write more regularly.
More later,
Rebecca
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