Progress is good, right?

That, my friends, is my basement floor.....

.....after Will dribbled the whole way to the bathroom. We arrived home and came inside through the garage. Will immediately began the potty dance and started pulling anything on his lower half down.

The end result was what you see with a bit of something making it actually IN the potty.

I admit, I had a good laugh about this one.

the potty training roller coaster

So, Will is doing really well with the potty! (Yay!)

However, he is still doing number two in his pants. (Boo!)

He's figured out that we don't want it in his pants and chooses to then put it in the potty himself. (Yucky. Double boo.)

His medicaid will cover his night time pull ups! (Yay!)

He's been waiting too long to go and leaves a nice large wet spot on many days. (Boo.)

He's learning how to aim and has been hitting my shower curtain less. (Yay!)

However, tonight at his grandparents' house, he managed to wait so long he wet every outfit I brought him while trying to get to the potty. (Boo.)

Seriously....is it any wonder I'm exhausted by the end of the day????? One day, hopefully soon, this roller coaster will end!!!

best 15 bucks I've spent this summer

(This is called a Stomp Rocket for those who are interested. Every time he'd set it off, Will would yell "Oh man! Amazing!" LOL)

Another Miracle League game this weekend

Will plays on a team in the Miracle League. If you aren't familiar with this program, check it out...I'd suggest googling to see if there is a program in your area. I had no idea until a friend mentioned it to me.

My sister in law and I decided to enroll our kids and try it out, and every weekend, I am reminded of why I'm glad I did.

Will loves it. Our area recently renovated the field so that everything is accessible and easy for the kids. This past weekend I got to be his buddy since dad, his usual buddy, was working. It was so much fun! I'm trying to teach Will to be more independent of us, so I had him hit off a tee. He barely dinked it, but the point was that he did it himself!

Here's a sneak peek...

http://memoriesthatrprecious.com/Blog/?p=542

These are just a few of the pictures that were taken during our Littlest Heroes Project photo shoot! The photographer did a wonderful job, despite having a clingy and cranky Will! (ear infection brewing...tubes Wednesday...thank heavens)

Blog Talk Tuesday: Summer Shoes

Is duct taping shoes to a child's feet considered abuse? Just curious.

Will was pretty clear that he did not like the pair of shoes that I bought for him to play in...you know, some that can get wet and muddy and be cleaned easily. (We also bought a nice pair of brown sandals that he's fine with.) He ended up taking them off last night and throwing them to the dogs next door, who of course, loved them. I'd say that's a pretty clear sign that he didn't like them, what do you think?

$60 later, we found out that he likes Crocs. I think.



Anybody else have this issue transitioning between seasons? Oh, the joys!

Celebrating Inchstones

I talk about Will an awful lot here. (By the way, that's his "cheese" grin...you know, the one the kids pull out when you pull out the camera?)

For those that don't know him.....his story goes something like this:
He was born healthy, or so we thought. Two weeks later, he had a diagnosis of 4q partial chromosome deletion. He went home with an NG tube through his nose because aspiration led us to the NICU here. Other than that, we had no idea what his life would be like.

In the past four years, we have had some major ups and downs, as any parent of a child with special needs. The ups have outnumbered the downs....quite possibly because this is how I choose to look at it, or possibly because we started life out with a diagnosis and went up from there. (We were told he might never learn to eat, walk, talk, and so on.)

His diagnoses now also include things like apraxia, dysphagia, esophgeal dysmotility, developmentally delayed, probable mitochondrial disorder, and sensory integration disorder.

His "other" list includes things like clearing his swallow study at 11 months, the time he learned to ride his tricycle at age 4, stopping tube feeds at age 4, and so on. You get the idea. The Celebration List.

Words and diagnoses don't define the person, and yet, our children are all too defined by these words. We choose to celebrate the "inchstones" in our family. (Milestones don't manufacture enough celebrations...we celebrate the things in between, or the things they don't write about in those books!) We choose to focus on what Will CAN do and the things he does everyday that no one thought he'd ever do.

Time for celebration!! What inchstone have you seen recently in your household?