We started reading to Jonathan and Vanessa at bedtime again last week. We had stopped when I changed jobs. It was almost impossible time-wise. But they have both become very interested in reading. Jonathan likes it very much. He always did, but he is now more into it because he understands what we are reading better. He also can tell us what is going on in the pictures. He understands some of the drama (a car almost hitting a kid that disobeyed her dad, etc). Last January and February, we had to point everything out to him and he was more interested in the words than the pictures. That is somehow changing.
In the mornings, he and Vanessa read a couple of books while I get them ready for daycare. It is really cute to watch them.
Today, when I got to the HBOT, I saw Jonathan and my dad in my dad's car reading a book. My dad told me that Jonathan read "A cat in the Hat" and a couple more books on the way there. He was not interested in his Leapster at all. That was great.
When we got to the trailer, Jenn asked Jonathan what movie he wanted to watch. I thought Jonathan would not understand or hear her because she did not call out his name first and she speaks fast - she was helping another child and she had her back to Jonathan, I was taking Jonathan's shoes off and Jonathan was paying attention to me, and she said "what do you want to watch today Jonathan" very fast; I heard it but I noticed that he didn't raise his head up so I thought I had to prompt him, but he answered immediately that he wanted to pick it. Then he came back down and looked around and asked what each kids' names were. That was curious. We got in and he did pretty well on our way down. His ears bothered a bit, but he was able to pop them today with little trouble. We watched the magic schoolbus. He paid close attention to the themes and we talked about each of them. That was great. That cartoon is very educational. He liked the one about the ants and pointed out the babies and the mommy. His receptive language is getting better every week.
On the chamber, he told me that he wanted to eat pizza. I asked "did you already eat pizza?" and he said "no mommy, I want to eat pizza when we get out". When we got into the car, he asked me if we were going to get pizza and I told him that Daddy was going to cook one that we had at home in the oven. He asked why. I told him that we already had one and it was raining so it was better if we ate the one that we had at home. And he was happy with that answer.
When we got home he asked daddy to show him were the pizza was. It was really cute to see. When I cut it in pieces, he told me that he wanted 3 pieces. I gave them to him and then he asked for a 4th one so he could complete a circle with the edges. That was cute.
He played "I Spy" with Vanessa for a while. Then they played with other toys, pretend food, etc. As they were playing, Scooby-Doo came up and he asked Vanessa which one was the bad witch. I wish I had taped that. He asked a couple of times. Then the witch showed up and Vanessa pointed out to Jonathan which one was the witch. That was really cool.
His expressive language is having trouble. He is trying to speak fast at times and I cannot understand sometimes when he talks. He also has a lot in his mind that he is trying to convey and he cannot put all the sentences in the correct structure. So unless you know what he is trying to say, it is hard to follow. This is happening when he speaks in long sentences (over 10 words or so). When he uses less words, his structure is pretty good, the tense is correct and it is easy to understand. I have called 2 speech therapists because I feel that this is the time to work on speech corrections.
I got his Stool Analysis results today and they show LOTS of yeast. That I saw coming. But then it showed Strep. 2+ only (it used to be 4+), but still it is there again. That explains the obsessive compulsive behaviors that returned, the lack of social interactions with other kids, the mood swings, etc. It also showed a very high IgA marker. His IgA had always been less than 10 and it showed it over 400. I don't know what that means. His gut PH is 6.4, and Yasko likes it over 7.0. So all along I knew his gut problems had returned and this confirms it. I'll wait to finish HBOT to start attacking that. It is hard to do it while oxygen is also working. I collected the stools 3 weeks ago and his stools are much better now. They do not stink half as much and he is becoming more social. So I'll ride it until Sept. 20 and then work on the gut.
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