Side Effect

Ian is doing great with the occupational (OT) and speech therapy (ST). He likes to go and "play" with the different things with Miss Molli and Miss Cora which is great that the thinks of it as play. I am working with him at home as a big part of the OT is at home and almost all of the ST is at home. We have been using scissors and gluing things and we learned today that we should try gluing some different things like beans or noodles so we'll do that tomorrow. For our ST we use his Big Backyard Magazine from national geographic to talk about all the cool animals and animal facts. I'm learning lots myself like why earthworms come out when it rains.




One of the side effects of Ian's meds is hair growth--speedy speedy hair growth. He has always had lots of hair and now it grows even faster if that is possible so yesterday I busted out our usual routine for cutting his hair. It consists of:

• Taking off shirt to avoid the scratchy factor
• Putting on cape
• Putting in requested favorite DVD (yesterday it was James and the Red Balloon {a thomas the train})
• Loading up with lots of sugary bribe treats (yesterday it was mike and ikes)
• Wetting down the hair (crying follows)
• Snipping begins

I try really hard to go fast and make it look decent and think I do an OK job but that is just me. Here's the picture of Ian in the cape yesterday :)


He is doing great all things considered and appreciate the love, prayers, and support.

Therapy Begins

We had Ian's evaluations for speech and occupational therapy on Wednesday. He is a bit behind due to transplant issues. We'll have to go for about 3 months every week and it is going to take some schedule wrangling as Ian's little sister really shouldn't be there so Brett is trying to be here to watch her.

Ian continues to do well and amaze me with how much energy he has. And I don't think that he could eat more string cheese...we go through 2 to 3 a day!