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My New Favorite Picture!!

So we have been really busy the last couple of weeks and i feel like i am so behind. I got sick at the End of last week and it took alot of sleeping over the weekend to help. Thank God for brandon watching gavin and just letting me sleep. There was also the mass amount of flooding in Indiana. Brandon actually was off a day of school because driving on back roads was so horrible. It was great for the pond which was low from last years drought but not great for the man space. It has finally dried out. but i am finally catching up. I feel so productive.

Last week When i was talking to one of Gavin's Theripist we were talking about how he has made leaps and bounds of improvement and now he is just soaking up information. But he still struggles with his Gross moter skills. Part of it is his own frustration, he wants to be able to figure everything out and get no help (yes he got that from me). So when he doesn't get it on the first try he will throw it or hit whoever is trying to teach him. (yeah for me cause it is mostly me). So in an effort to work on the gross motor and work on colors and numbers i Dyed Pasta and have been working on putting them on string and making pasta pictures. He has not been thrilled about putting them on strings but it gets better every day. He still only likes to be right on green and blue , and the counting is improving but this is how it goes 1,3,6,7,8,9,10 haha.

My Aunt and Uncle were also her last weekend ( just when i was starting to get sick) Gavin LOVED them visiting. He would take them by the finger and tell them to play or read a story. It was great. He doesn't get to see them much at all normally when my mom and me to Minnesota to see family. So it was really Great to see them. Sorry i was didn't get to hang out with them more. ( See pictures from last post)

So Gavin Still has the "i don't want to eat new things". He has limited himself to maybe about 10 things and about 5 of those are bread/grain related. So not getting tons of variety. I got him into a Program called Feeding Friends. It is an all food based therapy. It makes kids interact with food in non eating ways to work on sensory and touching in hope to work towards the eating. He has to kiss the food, make pictures with food and then at the end actually try to eat. It is really Interesting, and Hard. any one who has met Gavin knows he has a a temper and at the first session he showed his bad side. But that also means it cant get any worse then he was haha. I can't see what the next few weeks of class will do for eating.
Playing with his food instead of eatting!

another therapist of Gavins said that i should try to cook with him more so that he gets interested. So I have been trying to let him help more. But i realized that it is easier to let him help when we do it from scratch so I am now trying to do more from scratch. It is a little overwhelming cause i am use to only baking from scratch but i am really enjoying it. (Thanks to Sarah and Linds for her blog )Now i am starting from easy stuff. I made homemade apple sauce 2 weeks ago and got really excited when i successfully canned them. Today I made Hot sauce ( bailey family recipe) and tomato sauce and successfully canned that to. Gavin also helped me make pumpkin muffins ( or mermans in Gavin talk) HE loved helping . I never realized how excited i would get over it. I also am realizing that it is healthier to.

We also have Started Gavin on Potty training and it is going AWESOME! I held off cause i thought that Gavin was going to be the worst! I was so wrong. He has peed on the potty every time. He is also so proud of him self. I am so happy!! Thanks Sarah D. For the advice it is great!
Sorry it was a long one!