The Strong and the Mighty

Max is 1.07m tall and weighs 18.5kgs
Lukas is .89m tall and weighs 14kgs

Evacuation Has A New Meaning

With talking to the GP and with having looked into this issue again ourselves, the emphasis will be on producing regular and predictable evacuation of the bowel by:
1. Increasing his fibre
2. Recording when accidents occur
3. Encouraging sensitivity to his body's signals that action may be imminent
4. A reward chart for clean pants
5. Possible medication if he becomes constipated (or maybe just to encourage a motion at a suitable time...certainly not an option if there are any adverse affects).
I'll write more tomorrow...I've just joined Twitter and want to get in a bit of time over there before bedtime.

Typical Me

I jump into things with a hiss and a roar and then get distracted by other cool and exciting things to jump into. We are all great. At this moment Lukas is asleep, Max is at school and BBD is dethatching part of our lawn for resowing. Max and Lukas have had tremendous growth physically and mentally over the past month (which reminds me, I'll put their height and weight up in the next blog). Louie is so cute, smart and funny as well as demanding, bossy and loud. Max is gorgeous, loving and gentle as well as frustratingly argumentative and stubborn. Max is doing really well at school...he loves his teacher (she is awesome...just the right mix of strict with encouraging praise) and he loves his friends. We are seeing so much progress in his reading, writing, verbal and non-verbal communication, art and music (or rather, singing). We are, however, working with his teacher on some issues such as getting Max to listen to initial instruction, i.e. put the knife down (I kid)...stop talking and listen is the biggie, also Max did not want to do swimming and refused to even change into his swimwear but by the end of the swimming season and with a lot of encouragement from his teacher, and Johnny attending swimming sessions, Max was getting into the pool and joining in with the session. The biggest issue we're having at the moment is Max's toileting. It has always been a bumpy road and we thought he'd adjust in his own time but now it is becoming an issue at school so we've made the decision to talk to our GP, which is where I'm off to in 15 minutes.