Thursday, March 28, 2013
Remy got up this morning and went to the toilet on his own. Starting to count again his streak of waking up with a clean and dry bed! I love that he's been going to bed without a diaper ever since last week.
Remy was quite calm this morning. He just wandered into the kitchen looking for food, no loudness nor hyperactivity. He tried to get to the pieces of orange that his sister wouldn't eat that we're in the sink, but I caught him on time and redirected him to his soup and bison bone broth. He had several small helpings and seemed satisfied.
I feel good about starting this diet officially with the intro tomorrow. He likes the food, an I am getting the hang of dividing up the preparation.
We took Sister to school taking the long way. At the school, Remy went around and around the garden raised perimeter very very fast while using me as balance. Then we ran together all the way home with some walking breaks. He seems to really like me running with him, and I am SO enjoying it too :)
The baby was crying when I walked in the front door. It seems to be that stage now where he will cry for me to pick him up. Today we got home at 9:10 am.
With some guidance from me Remy hung up his coat and put his shoes away before using the toilet and then going downstairs to the playroom.
While he played fish activity on the iPad I managed to eat my breakfast and feed as well as change and potty the baby before going downstairs to join him.
At 10:00 I guided him to use the toilet then we came back downstairs to drink his bison broth. It was too hot and Remy said "hot"! So he waited patiently trying the broth again and again intermittently until he was able to drink all that was in the thermos.
This morning remy has been more interested in iPad with the fish than going up on the windowsill. Going on the windowsill has been the regular activity these days but today he is really pleasant and calm with exception of some mild giddiness and giggling. He initiated me to muff his ears as well as engage with me with open fingers hands up over the table. He likes interlacing my fingers with his.
I have noticed Remy making his fingers into twists. It seems that he is trying to stretch them out as well as shake them out. He also has been blowing on them. I wonder if he has punched nerve causing him to feel burning or tingling sensations in his extremities. He also has not been letting me do buzz snap hands (one of this HANDLE activities that he had no problems with a month ago). I am looking forward to seeing what the osteopath can offer to help us.
After soup Remy has been really calm and focused on flash cards that he tried to get by himself by puttin a chair on the mattress to reach. The cards he likes he bends and wrinkles them.
From 11:15 am some family came to visit us in his playroom. Remy was quiet and calm looking at his flash cards and just taking care of himself.
As the guests were leaving. I walked Rwmy upstairs too. He sat on the windowsill in the kitchen as I was gathering clothes for our cousins. Remy ate two ripe pears on the windowsill quietly. What a guy :)
We returned downstairs after using the toilet. Then I took a few minutes to feed the baby and to get Remy more soup. When I returned he was foun a puzzle activity on his iPad calmly at the table.
He welcomed his soup by putting his iPad aside. I brought him small portions of soup several times, and he finished every serving each time.
I had him stay learning with his iPad in the playroom as I tried to eat my lunch and feed the baby. During this time the handyman came to touch up the baby's room door. Remy came up the stairs to go have a bowel movement. As soon as I recognized this at 1:14 pm, I turned in both hallway lights for him so that he wouldn't streak naked turning those lights on to indicated BM. It worked!
From 2 to 2:38 we went out for some exercise outdoors. We walked, we ran and we jumped. Remy initiated jumping 2 times and he came up with a chasing game in which he would pull me behind him and he would run off laughing giving himself a head start! But I ran fast too and quickly caught on to his game. His eye contact while running (and jumping in trampoline) is so sweet and amazing.
As we were going to get the mail and open the front door Remy ran off to the neighbour's front yard to get whatever remaining dirty snow there was. He laughed, but I got him back to the house rather quickly.
He took off his coat and hung it (not very elegantly, but it was on the hook!) and put his shoes neatly where I pointed.
I was able to attend the Q and A webinar getting my questions about the GAPS diet that I needed to know before officially starting Remy on the Intro diet tomorrow. My mom helped me keep an eye on Remy while I was on the call. Thank you, Mom!
In the evening I was on a health history call so Alex was taking care if all three kids. Near the end of my call, Remy apparently urinated all over his bed and comforter. And Alex discovered that Remy had poured my cup of water out in the playroom. Lesson to self: keep all histories under one hour and always keep liquids out of Remy's reach when he is not supervised.
All in all, a wonderful day today. It has been great so far since last Monday.
