Autumn is upon us.
The leaves are changing colors, and warm smells of cinnamon, cider and soup have been wafting through our home.
I got out our fall decor yesterday and Kendall helped me adorn the house :)
And a quick trip to the neighborhood farmers' market yielded some unexpected purchases: a bottle of homemade honey and three pumpkins to enjoy!
Although there have been many blog-worthy things happening around this place, it seems all I have been able to post are occasional updates on Carter. Sorry about that...I will be bringing to you more entertaining things in the near future. But in the meantime, here we go again...
Carter's
Behavioral Specialist appointments are underway. Three times a week, he will see the doctor who has a PLAN to wean him. Of course, the DAY BEFORE his initial appointment with the doctor, he decided to suck down some juice at home. (What a booger!) I'm hoping that means this process will go more quickly than we thought. I am not allowed to attend sessions with Carter, and our home assignment basically relegates me to a big case of B.O. .... BACK OFF. Nighttime routine will change with the non-nursers in the house rocking Carter back to sleep when he wakes. This makes me feel sad and guilty, but hey- I've been doing ALL the nighttime routine myself for 10 months now. A few weeks with some help, and we'll have a whole new operation here!
And, this morning we had a check-up with the
Eye Doctor, which I was dreading and for good reason. He had a pressure check on his eyes (this has been done under anesthesia for the last few months) which meant restraining him, having his eyelids clamped open and an instrument applied to his eyeball for reading. It's awful. We had this done at his very first check-up- he was three months old- and I bawled. This time, I shrunk back into the corner as far as I could and covered my face. I could hear his feet excitedly kicking the table as he scrrreeeeamed, and every instinct to push the doctors out of the way, grab my baby and run was successfully harnessed. The result was a satisfying report of "normal" pressures. Our next pressure check will be in the cities
My souvenir from the appointment was a prescription for Carter's
GLASSES- which he'll need to address his near-sightedness (caused by the Glaucoma). I'm not going to lie...although I've been getting many encouraging responses from friends who think he will be SO CUTE in glasses, I shed major tears on the way home. Maybe it's the idea of having to look at those beautiful eyes through a glass barrier now. Maybe it's the idea of having ANOTHER challenge to face (like he's going to keep those glasses on his face?! HA!). I don't know. I guess I'm just an emotional basketcase today.
That's it for now-
I promise I have non-Carter related posts to share, stay tuned!
