Some updates...

First and foremost, my BFF had her baby girl! OMG she's adorable! Last Monday my BFF got into a "minor" car accident, she was fine but the car wasn't. We think that might have caused things to start moving, or at least it didn't help. The next night we all went out for dinner at Carrabba's, oregano is supposed to be a natural labor starter, so I've heard. Then that night her and her hubs bumped uglies and 2 days later she had her little girl, a month early! She was not trying to start labor, actually she was walking around 4-5 cm dilated and didn't even know it! She went in for a routine check up and was told to go strait over to L&D. Of course she went to Wendy's first, she was hungry, that girl never gets nervous. She got to the hospital at 4:30, doc broke her water at 6:30, her baby girl was born at 8:03pm! Doesn't get much better than that! She had such a fast childbirth, but her little girl was face up so even though she was only 6lbs 5oz, she had a hard delivery and ended up being ripped a new one.... welcome to Mommyhood Lisa!!

Now as for Nolan. I swear that woman is reading this blog! The night I posted about being pissed she called apologizing for not getting back to me sooner. Then she called today saying she's going to have the speech pathologist come to our house to re-evaluate Nolan and she thinks he may need more than one day a week. Very weird that she just came out with that. She feels that his constant drooling is a sign of low muscle tone in the lower jaw so it may be something physical after all. Before when they evaluated him he was teething, so it was hard to tell if the excessive drool was from the teething or low muscle tone. Those teeth are all the way up now, so they can't be the culprit unless he's getting his 2 year molars in which it really doesn't look like he is and he just got his 1 year molars in last month. This meeting went so much better, she spent a lot more time with him. I think it helped that Carter wasn't here, he was at MMO. I'm starting to see more and more that Carter might be the cause to a lot of this as well. I guess I didn't realize how much Carter speaks for Nolan, I'm really picking up on that now. Carter also likes to try to steal the show, loves to be the center of attention. They kept telling me to make sure he's there, I think it went much better without him. Carter definitely has good intentions, he loves his brother so much and he certainly looks out for him a lot, but I think I need to work on getting Carter to back off just as much as I have to work on getting Nolan to speak up for himself. ***Chris you are 100% right about that!!!*** I also told her about Nolan missing MMO by doing these meetings on Friday and she was more than willing to move our dates around. She wants him to keep going to MMO as well and thinks its very good for him. And once again she was another who confirmed he has no signs of Autism, Thank God!!!

My main goal is to just get the communication lines open with Nolan by the time the new baby gets here. With Carter starting Pre-k in August, new baby in September, and the fact that I have come to the realization that despite being right down the road from most of my family, I have zero help to rely on (that's another post), things are about to go from a little crazy to really freaking hectic! I'm looking forward to the extra craziness but it would be a lot easier if the communication issue is somewhat resolved before then.

Chris, We have no issues with leaving him with anyone. He's extremely social at MMO, he loves all the girls there, he's such a ladies man that it isn't even funny! The only problem we are having with him is hitting, I don't know if its just an age thing or the fact that he has no other way to communicate so he uses his hands. This just started and had gotten really bad over the last few days. I feel bad for the other children even tho all the moms tell me not to worry about it and that their kids went through that too. Carter did as well, but he never really hit other kids, only me, Mark, and his cousin who is a year older than he is... but she being older would push him around and take toys from him so he started hitting her to defend himself (not that I condoned that, just an explanation) as a result it became a hard habit to break once he realized he could control her with his hand. They've finally outgrown that.