Mutterings
It has been a few days since I’ve blogged - I had a self-imposed break from the ‘net this weekend and for the most part I kept to it. I couldn’t resist the urge to get on every now and then to check my email or certain message boards but I wasn’t on for long. Hi, my name is Melissa and I’m a net addict.
On Saturday I watched my nephews for several hours while my sister and parents were in training to be able to provide habilitation and respite for my daughter. We went out to breakfast, got the car washed, and then went to a BBQ sponsored by a local car club. Yes, I am into cars. It was nice because a few hours after we got there a gentleman with a Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren came and my nephews were in awe - although they were trying to hide it. My oldest nephew will quickly let you know that this is a $500,000 car. He is a car fanatic, his knowledge of cars is absolutely amazing. At two he would sit in the back sit of his mom’s SUV saying the make and model of every car he saw. It was nice to get some time with my nephews without my kiddos. Now I’m not saying I don’t enjoy being around my kiddos but I enjoyed the alone time with my nephews.
Yesterday was a lounge-around day - I stayed in my PJs all day! I love days like that. I watched a few movies - The Last King of Scotland and Fast Food Nation. Forrest Whitaker was fantastic as Idi Amin - The last King of Scotland was an absolutely wonderful movie!! Fast Food Nation was good as well; albeit gross. I read the book several years ago so I wanted to see how the movie played out. Definitely not one you want to watch while eating dinner.
My husband is off work today and tomorrow so Ava and I got to lounge around the house this morning. My husband took up the duties of shuttling my son to and from school as well as therapy. Evidently Alexander did a great job at therapy trying every challenge that the therapist put before him. He’s really starting to shine now so I’m hopeful that he will ‘graduate’ soon. Shortly after Ava went down for a nap I received a call from the pediatrician - she wanted us to go ahead and get the blood tests done and then schedule a follow-up xray in a month. I don’t dare wake her up early from her nap so I waited until she woke up and off we went to the lab. She jumped the first time she was stuck and the needle missed the vein - they moved it around a few times and couldn’t get the vein so they took it out and tried in the other arm. By then she was frantic and the two phlebotomists were talking to her trying to calm her down and I explained to him that she has autism and probably doesn’t undersand much of what they are saying (her receptive language is much more delayed than her expressive). I was rubbing her head and whispering in her ear as they inserted the needle into her other arm and wouldn’t you know they missed the vein again! Thankfully they moved it just a little bit and the blood started to flow. Instantly Ava stopped crying - she saw the blood and knew that it was almost over. I should have the results in a few days.
It’s only 6:30 pm here but we are getting ready to go to bed. I used to be a night owl but now I’m usually asleep by 8:30pm. *yawn*
