Hudson is on his way!!!!
Hudson is two years old and making massive headway on his developmental progress! I am so proud of this little one! He began about a year ago showing slow developmental delays in crawling, walking, eating and his speech. We were having regular appointments with his pediatrician and neurologist because they were following up on him from his Infancy Myoclonus. He began therapy almost a year ago at about 15 months. By then he was not crawling, just scooting on his bottom and no speech yet and having a very hard time eating solid table foods. So we began our journey with the regional center. There has been such progress that has been made. He began seeing a physical therapist, Paulina once a week and an occupational therapist, Millie once a week and when he was 18 months he began seeing a speech therapist, Dana and now Carmela twice a week. He began to walk in July, he was 20 months when he began to take steps on his own and he has been improving his strength and coordination since then. His speech has been the area of most improvement. He went from not saying any words just pointing, signing to talking and singing up a storm these past few months. He say full blown sentences and now we know all the things he was thinking for so many months, but just did not know how to communicate them. The neurologist and pediatrician and recently, a genetisis does not know why he has been delayed, but I praise God that he is improving and has pretty much caught up to where he needs to be in the last year. I don’t know if I can fully credit early intervention but I do know that many people have prayed for him and I am thankful that the Lord has brought him this far. Hudson has so much personality that I did not see before, because now he can express himself so much more. He is going to be a class clown when he grows up. He makes silly faces and at the most random times and is super goofy. He loves “money and cheese” which is macaroni and cheese. His favorite activity is reading books and loves swinging, blowing bubbles and watching what he calls EIEI oohhh- that is short for Baby Einstein- Old Macdonald. He of course loves to play with his sister and loves playing with his daddy too. He is so much more confident now, rough housing, climbing all over daddy, when he was so subdued before. He still has a sweet temperment and disposition- very mellow, obedient and sensitive. He is much more sensitive than his sister. He is a real brute, a thick boy! Zach and I joke that he will be bigger than Daddy when he is 16 years old. He is completely different than his sister in size and build. He walks around and says “cuuuute” thats “cuuuuuute” as he points to his little brother or a picture of a doggie or something of his sisters. When Zach was his age, they look exactly alike! Now his new thing is “I need hep, I need hep”- this is I need help and is said at almost every task or play. I think it is his way of getting attention and adjusting to a new baby and also just his personality. I think he is always going to need a lot of encouragement and spurring on until he realizes he can do it on his own. I think for so long he has needed help doing almost everything and now that he has the capability to do things, he is timid, intimidated and scared to do things. He was once the little boy that we would put in a sandbox or on the grass with his legs straight in front of him and he would win for “babies best abs” because he would hold his legs up in the air right in front of him to get them off the sand/grass and his hands too until we would lift him out of his misery. Now he plays in the grass and sand but still have some sensory issues, especially eating. “Pizza-pie” “pizza-pie” he would ask at dinner time over an over again and I would say no, not today “oh” he would say and ask again. That and money and cheese are his favorite foods. He loves balls more than anything, he especially loves basketball. His favorite sweet treat is “pops” short for lollipops. For awhile before Chase was born he found his will and it was strong! We started with first time obedience training him and he has improved tremendously with his obedience. For awhile, he would scream and hit his head on the floor when he was sent to time out or if he was disciplined. We wondered what should we do, the disciplining is actually making him more upset and mad, but now he has mellowed out and knows his limitations much more. We have hit a bit of the terrible twos with him but they have been short lived days, once the boundaries are set, he realizes what he can and cannot get away with. He has been throwing tantrums the last couple weeks and I have been working with him on that. I just look at him today and can’t believe he is mine. Now having Chase, he is such a big boy and our family would never be the same without him. He is such a smart, cute and funny little boy! We are so blessed to have him apart of our family.
