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On a happy note Emmett and Lilia take their monthly pictures this Sunday. The theme is school. I'm dressing Emmett in like a Jean type long sleeve shirt with black Jean's and dress shoes. Lilia is wearing a dress that the top half is like a Jean looking top and the bottom is a navy tutu with black flats. They're going to be adorable! And I'm taking their Lilia and Emmett books we ordered special for them a while back to have in the pictures
School will be the death of me!
The 3rd of my 4 classes and I'm ready to quit
But won't! School has been extra tough very little time with my family during the week. Work has been a roller coaster of ups and lots of downs. Had to get my union involved but won't stress over that
Lilia is going on 4 weeks of her helmet now. She's so use to it from the start that now I'm not sure how she'll be without it
Emmett's doing so great in speech that he may be done soon already. I feel it's too soon but she said he may have met his goals already and has to check them. I feel he'd benefit from going the full 24 sessions at least that they recommended from the start. He's a smart kid. Just had no need to talk when he got everything another way. We're working hard with him and it's going well lots more talking thanks to the teaching methods we learned through speech.
She wants me to go speak to parents or at some presentations for them and I'm not sure I want too. But who knows.
I'm halfway done with this class going into week 3 and cannot be done fast enough the workload is beyond intense but will be worth it when I finally run my own class. Let me tell you I will not take my paras for granted. I'm having a beyond terrible year this year at work. I'm basically just toileting kids and dealing with behaviors nonstop. If I wanted to deal with nothing but behaviors then I'd have applied for the behavior specialist position 🤦♀️
Lilia got her helmet yesterday and she doesn't mind it at all! I'm super happy. Btw I made her an insta just like Emmett. If you want to follow let me know so I can send you the name 😊
I'm posting all her progress pictures there and anything else of her
Started work last week and ugh it feels so uncomfortable and awkward not belonging anywhere. I'm back and forth between 2 classes. I have no spot for my stuff. I carry my bag with me everywhere it sucks
Work is easy just very uncomfortable
I want to plan Lilias 1st birthday and can't decide what theme
It'll just be something small at home with family but I want to make it special and take advantage of the extra time I have now before student teaching
Lilia had her final scan to get her helmet. She's scheduled on the 20th to finally get it. 100% covered by insurance. It may not guarantee a perfectly round head but at least we can try to round it out some more. It's improved for sure since it was brought up at 4 months. You can't even tell unless you're touching the flat spot on the back
Now we wait to hear on Emmett's speech therapy
I go back to work this week and I'm super nervous for what this year will bring
Update
I started a new class 2/4 of my last for my credential. Seems like it'll be easy because the teacher keeps saying to everyone to not be so uptight we're go with the flow and change things around as each week passes
Emmett had his evaluation for speech today. She said he looks like he should qualify she needs to score and write up the report and within 2 weeks get called for appointments. That it can be 1 or 2 times a week depending on me. Personally I'd like 2 times a week to see some quick progress. I know he's super smart and learns fast. She was surprised with how much vocabulary he does know. He just isn't using phrases like he should. He can communicate to meet his needs but not to express his thoughts and feelings basically. Which I already knew and explained that's why I finally decided to get him extra help with a professional. She was glad to see all the work I've been doing with him and expects the sessions to be lots of fun and that he will learn quickly. That he seeks very friendly and social. I was surprised because I was afraid he'd be reluctant but nope. He was like he was in his element exploring everything and no worries of what was off limits. He played with everything she had and interacted. I was a bit sad at times he wouldn't respond but happy he was going to get some help. I can't wait to have a little chatter box. Just from today he was telling me "I no quiero talk" when I told him to say hi to Lilia. I laughed so hard on the inside because he's never said that before especially since he doesn't talk lol
Tomorrow is 2 weeks from Lilias evaluation and I haven't heard anything yet from insurance. I'm starting to worry now because they said it should be less than 2 weeks. I'm going to wait until Thursday and call to push them a bit
I'm getting bloodwork done tomorrow at 7 am. So much fun I have to be up by 6 the latest to get dressed and drive there. Hopefully my iron isn't too bad. I feel like stopping Emmett's. But I'm going to call and schedule an appointment with that office we went to since it's a family place and that's where he gets bloodwork done anyways. And since they have residents they may be more up to date on what blood exams to do for him and give me feedback on what to do about his medicine or how long he'll be on it. Because I got nothing from the his pediatrician
Today is national watermelon day. How funny. Lilia just went down for a nap. Photos are at 11 so I'll have to wake her up in an hour to get hear ready and go
Emmett will be much easier since he's up running everywhere
Went to the Dr today. 1st visit and she seemed very concerned with my iron levels. I'm assuming she got my results from my OBs office? Otherwise I'm totally creeped out why she was so serious about getting the labwork done. Said my eyes looked slightly pale
I'm thinking of scheduling an appointment for Emmett so I can get a second opinion on his iron levels
Girls will say they busy and be in their bed relaxin or sleep
Sounds busy to me
Reblog if you are busy
Their outfits for tomorrow's monthly photoshoot 😍 watermelon theme
I barely made Emmett's shirt a while ago and used the iron instead of my press so the seeds aren't sticking too well but oh well we'll see how tomorrow goes
Lilia barely got shoes or she'd be barefoot lol they came in the mail yesterday from wish I had ordered them a while back before i planned this and it just worked out
I don't like that I can never really find cute boy stuff like girls have. For his birthday people gave me crap because I made him an outfit instead of buying him one and Lilia did wear a minnie costume/dress. They don't sell 4T mickey mouse outfits only up to 2T was the largest fancy mickey one I found and it was just the exact same thing I made but different material and more expensive. It's not like I didn't try and he still had a cute outfit that I worked on vs just buying it and done. I seriously tried looking for a boy's watermelon outfit and the shorts was the closest I got but they came with a weird shirt that was more for a girl than boy. So I made him his shirt. He was happy running around wearing his outfit earlier
i wanna share with y'all a great thing that happened in my city yesterday. early in the morning, ICE tried to kidnap an undocumented man while he was leaving for work with his son in the car. this man had no warrant and no criminal record, and had lived in his home with his family for the past 14 years. these ICE agents, un-uniformed and in unmarked cars, blockaded this man’s driveway, while he and his child sat locked in their van, for 4 hours. (obviously this isn’t the good part.)
the man’s neighbors were the first to gather and confront ICE. phone calls were made, and dozens of local organizers, lawyers and activists showed up, in addition to more neighbors. they bought gas and siphoned it into the man’s car so he could keep the AC going. they passed water and food through the car windows. the city government was flooded with calls, and a few city council folks showed up in support of the man.
and ICE left.
the man’s neighbors & the activists formed a human chain around the car so the man and his son could get back into their house. and later, his whole family was escorted to a safer location.
today, that man is still with his family. his children, though undoubtedly shaken and scared (especially the son who was with him the whole time, and was so frightened he threw up at one point) still have their father. one of the neighbors said: “they picked the wrong neighborhood on the wrong day” and “I know they’ll be back, and so will we.”
I know a ton of posts get shared about doing this exact thing, but i want you to know that IT WORKS. community works. so please, above anything else, get to know your neighbors. keep an eye out for each other. don’t let people disappear. keep each other close, keep each other safe.
how are people not afraid of phone calls teach me
Also, I posted a new shirt to my shop! 🖤
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Lilia's results surprised me and at the same time didn't. Her measurements are in the moderate to severe severe. She definitely needs a helmet. Now we wait on the insurance process and to get a call back appointment. I'm excited to decorate her helmet. I'm making the best out of this and not sticking a stigma of it being bad
Going to have Lilia evaluated tomorrow to see if she needs a helmet or not. Her pediatrician said no but I want to make sure her head is normal since the flat spot is still there and her ears are a little off. Nothing crazy but still
Emmett finally has an appointment for a speech evaluation. I had to directly call the insurance to be able to get an appointment because apparently when they called they'd get told he can't be seen because blah blah blah. 2 different places both in network said no 1 because they only diagnose learning disabilities and he doesn't have one and another because he said I belonged to a group and they don't take that group. I have good insurance and BS still happens regardless. 1 I'm PPO so I'm not a part of any group and my insurance confirmed that and called that place and cleared things up for me 2 she had no idea where they got that other info from because he is 100% covered for speech but not ABA or OT which he doesn't need. I just want him evaluated for speech. Thankfully this lady from the insurance was amazing and did all of this for me so then I got calls back right away to schedule an appointment because he is covered for speech. I went with the 1st place I called because they are closer and the other place has bad reviews on scheduling and staff leaving constantly while the other place has good reviews. I need consistency because I start work soon and can't be missing like they'd like.
Emmett has started talking more and more but if I can help him I want to because I see how frustrated he gets when he tries to speak fast like us and he feels he said it wrong but he didn't so then he just says gibberish really fast and good job after. He second guesses himself too much and is afraid to fail like me unfortunately. Hopefully this is taking a step in the right direction. It's a few weeks away but better later than never.
He's been playing and talking to Lilia more which I think having her is helping him be more social
What post-grad actually looks like.
