I know it's been a while since I've posted, but we've been a busy bunch around here lately. I have some pictures to post of the boys having bubble time and some other stuff, but that will have to wait until I have the time to edit and post. So, for our first update, we are officially part of the Elwood Branch again and will be moving back to the Frankton area in the next couple of months. I am so not looking forward to the packing and unpacking again. I am so ready to be settled for a LONG time! I think we've moved about on average of once a year for too long and it is really getting old.
For the last few months we have been taking Andy to some specialists about some behavioral issues he's been having that have increased over the last year/year and a half and we got our first diagnosis today of ADHD. He starts his first medication tomorrow morning, Focalin XR. I'm really hoping the first time's the charm and that we don't have to be experimenting with meds too much. I've been a nervous wreck all evening about it and then did the horrible thing of reading a blog that was all about the bad side affects of this drug only. Yep, had to stop that after a couple of posts because it was making my anxiety of this a lot worse. I think he's a bit nervous too because he's had a hard time sleeping tonight. Along with the ADHD, he's been having some stomach issues and with Jared's Crohn's, we wanted to make sure that Andy wasn't having signs of this. The doctor had him get a stomach xray just to make sure there wasn't anything backing up to cause the pain and discomfort he's been feeling the last couple of months.
We received a phone call about an hour after the xray to say it came back okay and clear, so now we move forward on an IBS medication. I know this sounds bad, but I really wish there had been a back up of the bowels and gas causing it because this was the path that Jared started before we were married and I'd hate to see Andy go through all the same things that he's gone through over the last 8 years. He starts a medication for that tomorrow as well, so it's going to be a long few weeks of getting adjusted to new medications for him. I love him so much and I hate to see him go through these things. I know that through our faith he'll be comforted and healed.
On to Rhys, we have moved him over to a toddler bed because we just couldn't contain him in his crib anymore and I didn't want to have him break his neck or anything. This has been quite an adjustment with lots of missed and uncomfortable sleep for everyone. Here it is 11:30 and he's still awake and fighting it. Once he's asleep though, he will stay asleep throughout the night. He's starting to really take off on his speech and motor skills. He says quite a bit now and for the most part can tell you when he's hungry, thirsty, or wanting to play. The boys bought me a nice warm blanket for Christmas, just a fleece throw and Rhys has adopted this as his "blankie" and doesn't want to sleep with anything else. As long as he's happy that's all that matters. He is seriously the biggest ham that I've ever seen and he knows it. Him and Andy are such good pals and they play together all of the time. Andy and him love to do 'Ring Around the Rosie' and do it about every day a few times a day. They usually get Jared or I or both of us to participate too. We've been having a lot of dance parties lately too, thanks to Pandora being on our Blue Ray player we got for Christmas. It's been fun.
Jared is doing well in school and I am just busy doing school and keeping up with these boys. Life is never dull in this house. I will try to post pictures soon of things.
For the last few months we have been taking Andy to some specialists about some behavioral issues he's been having that have increased over the last year/year and a half and we got our first diagnosis today of ADHD. He starts his first medication tomorrow morning, Focalin XR. I'm really hoping the first time's the charm and that we don't have to be experimenting with meds too much. I've been a nervous wreck all evening about it and then did the horrible thing of reading a blog that was all about the bad side affects of this drug only. Yep, had to stop that after a couple of posts because it was making my anxiety of this a lot worse. I think he's a bit nervous too because he's had a hard time sleeping tonight. Along with the ADHD, he's been having some stomach issues and with Jared's Crohn's, we wanted to make sure that Andy wasn't having signs of this. The doctor had him get a stomach xray just to make sure there wasn't anything backing up to cause the pain and discomfort he's been feeling the last couple of months.
We received a phone call about an hour after the xray to say it came back okay and clear, so now we move forward on an IBS medication. I know this sounds bad, but I really wish there had been a back up of the bowels and gas causing it because this was the path that Jared started before we were married and I'd hate to see Andy go through all the same things that he's gone through over the last 8 years. He starts a medication for that tomorrow as well, so it's going to be a long few weeks of getting adjusted to new medications for him. I love him so much and I hate to see him go through these things. I know that through our faith he'll be comforted and healed.
On to Rhys, we have moved him over to a toddler bed because we just couldn't contain him in his crib anymore and I didn't want to have him break his neck or anything. This has been quite an adjustment with lots of missed and uncomfortable sleep for everyone. Here it is 11:30 and he's still awake and fighting it. Once he's asleep though, he will stay asleep throughout the night. He's starting to really take off on his speech and motor skills. He says quite a bit now and for the most part can tell you when he's hungry, thirsty, or wanting to play. The boys bought me a nice warm blanket for Christmas, just a fleece throw and Rhys has adopted this as his "blankie" and doesn't want to sleep with anything else. As long as he's happy that's all that matters. He is seriously the biggest ham that I've ever seen and he knows it. Him and Andy are such good pals and they play together all of the time. Andy and him love to do 'Ring Around the Rosie' and do it about every day a few times a day. They usually get Jared or I or both of us to participate too. We've been having a lot of dance parties lately too, thanks to Pandora being on our Blue Ray player we got for Christmas. It's been fun.
Jared is doing well in school and I am just busy doing school and keeping up with these boys. Life is never dull in this house. I will try to post pictures soon of things.
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