Gastro Appointment

These photo's crack me up because Caitlin actually has a full belly

You hardly ever see her with a big belly. But we have been having this

more and more lately now that she has been eating a little better

it is a very full belly!!!!!!!!

We had our Gastro appointment last week to check in on Caitlin. We had made it the month before because we had started to have concern for Caitlin's weight. Last month she had only weighed 21 lbs 6 oz. It was a concern because since November she had barely gained around 1 lb. Well all of a sudden she just started putting on this weight. We had got her to gain almost 2 lbs by the time we had her appointment. So here is her weight and height

23lbs 5 oz and 33 1/2 inches long!!! Yeah no G-tube. That was actually a possibility and we were nervous but the Dr was so happy with her weight and just her overall being. She saw Caitlin jumping around, talking, laughing and said that she just doesn't look at numbers she looks at the whole entire picture. Caitlin is catching up and she said she is just petite and coming from just being 1 lb 4 oz she is doing really well. We are still on Periactin which is such a big helper. It really does help with her hunger.
I am so glad we didn't have to G-tube because yep that idea was brought to our attention again which was super frustrating.

OK so other then that we are just waiting on our results from the genetics Dr which has actually got me a bit frustrated because I found out that he is only in 1 office 1 day out of the month and then in another office 1 more day out of the month then doing procedures and emergency room the rest of the time so it definitely makes it hard to get our results a lot sooner. I think her testing will show everything normal but if something were to come up i am not sure if we will continue on with this Dr or switch to someone else who has more time in their office. We will see.

On other news everything is still pretty much the same with both Dillon and Caitlin. We have been going to the beach a lot more since it has been pretty warm out. The kids love it. Caitlin has been covered in the sand and Dillon has been in the water the whole time playing in the waves and catching sand crabs with daddy.

Dillon is going to start kindergarten in less then 2 months and will be doing 2 different vacation bible schools during the summer. They are each for 1 week and it is like a little summer camp sort of thing. It will be nice for him to do that because I think he has been getting a little bored here at home since being out of preschool.

Caitlin has around 6 more months before we are released from her global program and her other therapy sessions. I am sure i have mentioned it but she goes to her group(global)program 3 days a week which is 2 1/2 hours long then gets an additional hour of speech therapy and another hour of occupational therapy of course broken up a bit so that's about 9 1/2 hours of therapy a week for her. I love where she goes. All of the therapist are so awesome there. Its very clean and open there and i am going to miss it so much!!!!!I am already starting to feel sad knowing it will all come to a close soon. at 3 years old kids get let go of early intervention and then from there if they need any more services then that's when you have to go through your school district so I think come October we will start having her assessed to see what she needs to be ready to transition in December. Me personally I am not really sure what she is going to qualify for. she has seemed to really caught up to being age appropriate. If she needs anything i would think maybe a little speech but that's it.

We have already found her preschool that we will be putting her in come January. It will be at Dillon's school which is nice having them both there. They will of course have opposite schedules but the reason I like this preschool program so much is because searching around at quite a few I noticed that there was a lot of free play. Well I really don't need to pay for free play when she could do that here. The school seems very structured and Caitlin needs that. Also they said that they would be able to help her going to the bathroom, all the other schools said they would not be able to. She needs to be potty trained by 3 years old in order to go to preschool. so that will be something else we are going to need to work on. She has gone poo poo 2 times so far in the toilet but that's it. We will sit her on the toilet a lot but I just don't think she is ready yet and I don't want to rush her. We will do it when she is ready not for anybody else. I am setting a goal by October and hopefully she will be ready because I think it will be a little easier for her to concept the whole idea and it gives us 3 months to try to get her potty trained. But again if she is not ready then we will have to put preschool on hold until she is, but I think she will be able to.

That's about it. Nothing else has really changed much for us at this time so till next time.

Here are some pictures of us at the beach. We should have some good 4th of July pictures soon.

Happy 4th of July!!!!!