Friday, January 13, 2012
Happy New Year!
I feel so bad that I have not kept up with this. It is fun though, going through the old stuff and remembering how things went. Justin loves to look at the pictures. He has changed so much.
We have officially completed our adpotion process with Justin. We completed our 4th post placement homestudy in October!
Justin has been diagnosed with Aproxia (speech). We have discovered that he does not have any muscle tone in his tongue. He is not able to lick the top of his lips. So we are doing tongue excerises with him. His speech is still very severly delayed. We go to speech thearpy 2x a week now.
He played flag football this summer and did very well (for being Justin). He came home one day and said "I was the best on the team". He really thinks very highly of himself. Honestly, he was one of the worst, but he loved it. Lets just face it, he loves sports and anything that is physical. He is starting basketball this weekend. I am anxious to see how he does.
Life has not been easy with Justin. He is very strong willed and some things just don't click in his brain. I have to keep reminding myself of how far he has come and how much better he really is. In January or Feburary of last year I was at the end of my rope. I was ready to call it quits and just leave it all behind. A good friend (Aurora Newton) just said "Go and get away for the weekend, I will take your kids". Geoff and I took off to a cabin alone for the weekend and really got away from all the distractions. Then we decided that I just needed to get some help understanding Justin. Justin and I started to go to counseling 2x a month. Wow, was that just what we both needed. To have someone understand and tell you why he was acting the way he was and why. We did that for about 6 months, and I am so thankful for it. Since then, I have been homeschooling Justin. He is a really smart boy. Yes, there are days we have BIG battles all day long. But overall, he is doing so much better. We are currently on a waiting list to get a mental evauation done. That was recommened by our counseler.
I do have to say, that Justin and I have bonded so much this school year with it being just the 2 of us at home.
On another note, Justin use to love to eat anything, well that has been changing some lately. This year he has decided that he can not stand soup of any kind. I personally think that has to do with the orphange (they had soup a lot). So we just take out the broth and give it to him on a plate. He loves it then. He is still very much afraid of water in his face. Geoff has been teaching him how to bathe and wash his hair laying down. So showers are still way out of the equation. I really want him to learn how to swim, just not sure how to go about it. Just getting him in the water and comfortable in a pool takes over 30mins.
Well, that is an update on my Russian boy. I will have to add a recent picture of him. He is 3'11 now and is very skinny boy.
Till next time,
Karey
We have officially completed our adpotion process with Justin. We completed our 4th post placement homestudy in October!
Justin has been diagnosed with Aproxia (speech). We have discovered that he does not have any muscle tone in his tongue. He is not able to lick the top of his lips. So we are doing tongue excerises with him. His speech is still very severly delayed. We go to speech thearpy 2x a week now.
He played flag football this summer and did very well (for being Justin). He came home one day and said "I was the best on the team". He really thinks very highly of himself. Honestly, he was one of the worst, but he loved it. Lets just face it, he loves sports and anything that is physical. He is starting basketball this weekend. I am anxious to see how he does.
Life has not been easy with Justin. He is very strong willed and some things just don't click in his brain. I have to keep reminding myself of how far he has come and how much better he really is. In January or Feburary of last year I was at the end of my rope. I was ready to call it quits and just leave it all behind. A good friend (Aurora Newton) just said "Go and get away for the weekend, I will take your kids". Geoff and I took off to a cabin alone for the weekend and really got away from all the distractions. Then we decided that I just needed to get some help understanding Justin. Justin and I started to go to counseling 2x a month. Wow, was that just what we both needed. To have someone understand and tell you why he was acting the way he was and why. We did that for about 6 months, and I am so thankful for it. Since then, I have been homeschooling Justin. He is a really smart boy. Yes, there are days we have BIG battles all day long. But overall, he is doing so much better. We are currently on a waiting list to get a mental evauation done. That was recommened by our counseler.
I do have to say, that Justin and I have bonded so much this school year with it being just the 2 of us at home.
On another note, Justin use to love to eat anything, well that has been changing some lately. This year he has decided that he can not stand soup of any kind. I personally think that has to do with the orphange (they had soup a lot). So we just take out the broth and give it to him on a plate. He loves it then. He is still very much afraid of water in his face. Geoff has been teaching him how to bathe and wash his hair laying down. So showers are still way out of the equation. I really want him to learn how to swim, just not sure how to go about it. Just getting him in the water and comfortable in a pool takes over 30mins.
Well, that is an update on my Russian boy. I will have to add a recent picture of him. He is 3'11 now and is very skinny boy.
Till next time,
Karey
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