Zoe-Mai has a tricycle. This beautiful little Dora trike that has flashing lights and cool sounds. At the end of the day when it's time to clean up the living room for the next day I can usually find the trike upside down in the middle of the sitting room. If I sneak around enough during the day I can usually get a glimpse of Zoe-Mai sitting, planted firmly around her upside down Dora bike spinning the wheels and watching the stickers spin into one.
Things have been going well these past couple of months. Mackenzie started soccer in March and while she takes a while to warm up and get motivated to play with the other children, she seems to have a blast. Even if all she is doing is running around not even coming close to touching the soccer ball.
Kenzie has been doing really well in school as well. She's been learning addition and it's great seeing some of the art that she does here at home. She's writing words on her own and forming small sentences. I'm so proud and so happy for her. The stress rash has been slowly getting smaller and going away. We also went clothes shopping a couple of weeks ago and she was super happy about getting new clothes .
Samuel seems to be getting bigger by the minute. He weighs around 18 lbs now, if not a little more and is only 6 months. He's been eating baby food like a champ and hasn't been gagging or spitting it back up like Zoe-Mai did at that age, so it gives me hope. He's rolling over and starting to crawl now.
Zoe-Mai is doing good for the most part. We started ABA therapy this past Monday with her and she did as expected- threw a 2 hour tantrum. Mrs. Randy, her therapist, at one point said that she fell asleep from her fit throwing exhaustion. Easter went very well and she seemed to enjoy coloring eggs and hunting for them. Only towards the end did she get tired to the point that she just wanted to go home.
She's eating really well now, enough that we were able to throw out her supplement bottle. This makes me happy. Getting her to sleep though is getting harder. Some nights she goes down without a fight, other nights she stands at her door screaming and pulling trying to get out. Last night she did this for a couple of hours and by midnight I was exhausted. I tried laying with her but after about 20 minutes of humming she went on to rubbing my face and it was clear she wasn't going to go to sleep with me in there. So I left her room, put her chain on her door so she couldn't escape and after around 2 hours of her yanking on her door and screaming I had no other choice but to allow her to come out into the living room and watch TV and eat. We had to get sleep, Kenzie needed to get sleep. She finally passed out in front of the TV at 3:30 in the morning and after carrying her back to her room, she slept until 11 in the morning.
She won the battle last night, hopefully we don't have a repeat tonight.
So in the land of upside down tricycles, everything is going better. We're slowly getting better and that's enough to give us hope.
