Long time since my last post, but so much has happened!  Whew, where to start?!  We finally closed on our house and moved...after a 22-hour marathon painting party and lots of help from good friends.  If for no other reason than to not want the interruption in Jerry's routine, I'll be glad to never move again!  The late hours, being shuffled to friends willing to babysit, and lack of routine did a real number on the little guy and he's just now starting to settle back down.  Of course, his dad left on a missions trip to Honduras today for a week and took two of his sibling with him.  So much for normalcy, huh?!

Amidst it all, Louis has taken the brunt of Jeremiah's "affections", but he's been a good sport about it.

We've also taken the plunge and stopped procrastinating Jerry's occupational therapy needs.  We weren't really procrastinating since we didn't have insurance that would cover OT for so long, but now with his Medicaid, we truly have no excuses.  I took him for his initial evaluation at All Children's Hospital and was amazed to learn that some of the "habits" Jerry has are really classic upper body weakness and OT need signs.  Great mom, huh?  He "w" sits, rests his head in his hands whenever he's sitting at the table, can stretch his arms all the way around himself, and has chicken wings for shoulder blades.

The suggested treatment?  Drumroll please.......THREE hours a week of OT for the next six months, at which time he will be re-evaluated!  Uuugghhhh!  Add that to the 90 minutes of speech therapy a week and there goes our schedule, right out the window!  Actually, speech just ended for the school year, but he has an eval. for SLP at All Children's on June 26th so that he can continue therapy over the summer.  Every year, he makes leaps and bounds progress in speech at school, only for summer to come and wipe it all away with three months of "off" time.  I'm praying ACH can combine Jerry's OT and SLP into a few days a week and we won't have to return to the elementary school in the fall.  We'll see.

We're on the waiting list for an OT opening and, until then, we bought this cool stool from IKEA for Jerry to sit on while watching TV, playing, eating, etc...  It makes him use his upper body muscles to sit up and prevents the "w" sitting.