Monday, August 21st

Happy Monday, if there is such a thing. We had a pretty good weekend. Alex's cranky day moved from Sunday to Saturday this week. Luckily it was a cloudy, rainy day Saturday and we really did not mind. Yesterday, we took the kids to the zoo and enjoyed the beautiful weather. Alex had an episode at Tropical Discovery, but otherwise it went pretty well. We spent three hours there and were ready to come home. Zoe took a good long nap and Alex just laid down but was in a better mood afterwards, which is really the whole point of naps.

So in an attempt to get Alex to eat, we reworked his reward chart. This week's rewards include: eat all of a meal; drink one glass of milk; drink two glasses of water; play outside; brush teeth and nap. If he gets five of these done in a day then he gets to go to the "Goody Bag" which was recently restocked with all kinds of fun stuff. After twenty reward stickers Alex will get a SpongeBob camera and after thirty stickers a trip to Lakeside (before they close for the season). So far Alex has eaten two meals. I'm very hopeful this will do the trick.

The doctor and I think Alex has probably lost his sense of taste on the right side. I asked about his ability to smell and was informed that smell is the only sense that does not travel through the brain stem. It has a direct link! Fascinating!

Ok, well this will be my first week as "stay home mom with two kids"! I am trying to plan activities for our free time. Alex has three appointments this week (so far) and I need to get into the office tomorrow.

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God bless.
G