Blake is now 7 months old and had his evaluation with EI. Amanda came while Caroline typed up her report. They tested him in six areas: gross motor, fine motor, play and cognitive, language, social emotional skills, and adaptive skills (feeding, sleeping etc). Gross, Fine and Cognitive were measured in weeks and language social emotional, [...]

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This weekend Blake will be 7 months old. When the social worker was here, she said that she thought Blake would be doing a lot more by the time she saw us again for his evaluation. I smiled and thought she was being nice, but,no, really! He is! He’s started to sit up without support [...]

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So yeah, Blake is 6.5 months old, Cory is 4 years old now and a few things have happened. Cory’s 4 year check up went alright. The sucky part were the several shots two nurses jumped on him to administer. They remember things like that…and bring it up for days. The doctor didn’t listen wholeheartedly [...]

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Blake’s been keeping up with his lightly runny nose and coughing and wheezing. No fever. He’s eating and playing and seems fine as long as we pat his back and suck his nose and give him albuterol treatments. He’s really loving the rolling over from belly to back…but that doesn’t get him belly time! Cory [...]

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Of course, just as I was getting used to Blake’s 4 hours schedule of 10 hours at night and 2 hour naps during the day, he changed the following week I put it in writing. Now he’s sleeping 12 hours a night and 3 one hour naps during the day with three hour cycles. My [...]

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