Sunday, December 18, 2011

Long Strange Trip

Fast forward a few years. The house was bought, move competed, and then baby #2 was announced. Pregnancy #2 was just as rough as the first one and the 10lb, 3 ounce Charlie moved in. He is the complete opposite of big brother. Rough and tumble from day 1 it seems. He makes our house move at an even faster pace if that could even be possible. Every day is a new adventure. Currently at 21 months he is on a phase of stuffing food into his mouth and holding it there like a chipmunk for as long as he can get away with it.

Big brother has had a few interesting years. Preschool was last year and things started as we imagined they would. A few tears the first day or two but we all survived. In October last year Big B was demonstrating some interesting behaviors that we couldn't figure out. Lots of head shaking and shoulder shrugging. This got worse and worse until we were given a referral to the pediatric neurology department of the hospital in the city. Dx- Tourette's Syndrome. (this diagnosis became official in the fall this year as it takes a year of tics to make it Tourette's rather than a passing phase), medication was tried with success but it had side effects that we were not thrilled with.

So our lives these days are chaotic at times, a riot at others, and rarely calm. It is just a matter of adjusting to a new normal I suppose.

The kids are jazzed about Christmas. I am looking forward to it being over so the commercial frenzy the world is in will die down a bit.

I will try to post a little more regularly if any one out there is still checking this.

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