Beach Trip with the Stumans

We had a great trip to the beach this week with our family friends, the Stumans.  EK loved the beach and especially the sand.  Paul and I have read a lot about how autistic children have weird aversions to certain textures, especially sand.  Many times I would look up while sitting on the beach and find EK face down in the sand.  She would roll in it and completely cover herself in sand.  It was so funny.  Our friend's daughter is 3 1/2 and she couldn't stand to have sand stuck to her, which was the response I was thinking EK may have.  Paul dug a little hole in the sand and the girls loved sitting there and playing with their rakes, buckets, shovels, etc.

Eva Kate did play a little with Allie, our friends 3 year old, but mostly did her own thing.  I am still concerned about her interaction with other children, especially her interaction with Mollie.  Mollie is so interested in her big sister.  Let me rephrase that... Mollie adores Eva Kate.  My hope is that one day the girls will play together and be close.  :)

                                    

EK was so good when we went out to dinner.  We packed her a CF dinner and the iPad and she was great while we enjoyed dinner at some local seafood places.  The only set back we had with the CF diet was a random lady on the beach giving her some cheeze its.  EK ran up to the lady's beach set up and she was having her cheeze its and beer and thought she would be nice and give EK a few to snack on with out asking us.  Ahhhhh!!!!  As far as the diet goes EK will be CF for three weeks on Sunday.  I personally have not seen any great improvements in her speech or her interactions.

Hated to see our trip come to an end on Wednesday morning, but it was nice to get back into a routine.  EK went back to school on Thursday and came home sick from school with a stomach bug that Mommy caught too :-(. 

Thursday was a crazy day.  I worked for STV Wellness 1/2 a day and then met Paul at Hand in Hand to have Mollie evaluated for delay of gross motor skills (not rolling over consistently, crawling, pulling up, etc.)  She did end up qualifying for services through early intervention too.  I'm so glad that we went ahead and had her evaluated now instead of second guessing ourselves like with did with EK. 

After Mollie's evaluation yesterday I started with the GI symptoms (that EK was sent home from MDO with) but I thought it was just nerves from being away from home, having Mollie evaluated and so on.  I woke up this morning and became violently ill with more GI bug symptoms and only made it 1/2 way to work before having to turn around and come home.  This has never happened in 7 1/2 years of working there.  Feeling better now- not sure it was truly a bug I got from EK (because she seems fine) or if it is a combination of a lot of things.  I feel like with all we've had going that my immune system has been weaker due to added stress and worry about my girls.