Where to begin....Kellan is flourishing like crazy and it is so.much.fun. I think I'm going to go bullet point style for this post just because he has a lot going on!
- Al's Run was a HUGE success. An awesome day, beautiful weather and the best family and friends there to support us. Simply amazing. We ended up raising just under $15,000!!!
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Not all 112 team members made it in time for the picture, but that is still a big bunch of people!!
Kellan got his first hair cut on September 7th in anticipation for his big T.V. debut and Al's Run. He instantly became a little boy!
He is coming along with sign language. He has just started to realize he can sign what he wants or needs and we know what he is talking about. He has mastered water, eat, ears, nose, milk, phone and all of the signs to 'Wheels on the Bus.' He continues to say 'Ya' if you ask him a question. He uses it in the right context when he wants to say yes. Wish he could turn that 'Y' into a 'M' so I could hear MA!
Kellan is crawling like crazy, loves to be chased and can move rather quickly if he knows he is being chased. He is also moving around like crazy holding on to anything and everything so that he can walk places.
He loves going down slides...working on his core to actually have him sit down and go down, but for now going feet first on his belly is a grand ole time.
He also LOVES books. The one thing he will sit for a very long time and play with. He first must take them all off the shelf. Once they are all removed, he sits in the heap of books paging through them. He will often hold one up and say "eh" which means, please read this to me :) His favorite has become Brown Bear Brown Bear or the Patty Cake book. One day he was reading alone while I was making his bed and I watched him do Patty Cake while paging through the book.....melted my heart.
We've found a new place to play and it is amazing for low muscle tone kids. The trampoline park. He loves the foam pit. The opportunity to fall off the edge of something whenever he wants is his heaven.
You can't even say the word E-L-M-O without him immediately pointing to the tv, ipad or our phones. Why the heck do kids like that guy so much!? He is obsessed.
He recently had the flu for 6 days, 2 of which I had it too....longest 6 days I've had in awhile. Pretty sure Elmo was on more than it was off trying to get through those days.
We've also formed a very bad habit of putting Elmo on when he eats. Getting him calories is way more important to me right now more than him watching T.V. Whatever it takes!
Speaking of eating, he is officially off his $35 per can formula that would last 2-3 days. WOOT! He has moved to a soy based formula that offers the same amount of calories and smells like cake. Way better than the other stuff.
With that, we also got him a new speech therapist, Linda. And we LOVE HER! She is way more aggressive on getting him to reach milestones and get eating and signing better, I needed her in my life! In the first week we had her, she had visited daycare and wrote an elaborate food plan for Kellan. She's also very energetic and fun which is right up Kellan's alley.
We also started him in Occupational Therapy. We've realized he has some sensory issues. He doesn't like things that are wet. We are working to hopefully fix that before he gets too old and set in his ways. Come on Kellan!!! We've also started a brushing technique over his body that is supposed to aliven his senses and get him stronger and walking. Though our physical therapist wouldn't mind if he didn't walk quite yet. She is bound and determined to get his core stronger.
We have also learned that even though he has bad hearing in one ear, he sure can hear lots. He has recently become sensitive to some noises like Grandma's house phone, Poppy's paper shredder and the teapot whistling. He looks in sheer terror and immediately wants to be held. Strange.
Kellan is still in love with anything that has doors. Opening and shutting them and removing the contents of everything inside them. The other day I walked into the pantry where he was "playing" and he was standing there holding a jug of water! Talk about some muscles! DVD's, pots and pans, tupperware and cookie sheets are far more fun than any toys he has.
Speaking of sheer terror, his dislike against babies smaller than him continues. He has now associated even a baby carseat and what it holds as scary. When meeting cousin Liam for the first time, they hadn't even put his carseat down and he clinged to one of us and started crying. He's slowly warming up to cousin Tanner. Over the weekend, we realized he really liked the picture of Tanner on the wall. I think it's just because he realized Tanner wasn't in the room and was happy with that.
Daddy just got a new job, so he traveled to Michigan for 3 days. I'm not sure how single parents do it every day. I was ready for some reinforcement after two nights alone with him. We are very excited at the new opportunity.
There have been talks of Kellan moving up to the next room at daycare. I'm nervous and excited for the transition. I think it will be good for him to be with older kids versus babies. He is now at least 6 months older than all of the kids in his room. Some kids his same age have moved up once already and are moving up to the next room soon which means he will be 2 rooms behind. Don't focus on those things Kelley. The new room will mean nap time on a cot, eating with a utensil and sitting at a table. Very hard to grasp that he is ready for any of those things but a main reason why I like the daycare. They push him to move on!
Well, there's our last several weeks in a nutshell. Looking forward to the rest of fall, dressing Kellan up as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and the approaching Holidays. I sure do love this time of year!
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