MIA

I have been missing in action. Too busy with too many things. My daughter's therapy swung into high gear weekly speech and occupational therapy and bi-weekly physical therapy. We also had a string of illnesses run through the house. My son was the first to come down with a stomach bug and within three weeks we all had it. I was the last. Both kids ended up needing IV fluids in the ER. Not fun. My daughter is once again recovering from pneumonia. Again. Third time this winter.

It's also been three months so I made the rounds to all the doctors with the kids and yesterday we had our WIC appt. I will once again sing the praises for WIC. Thanks to WIC my daughter gets 14 cans of EleCare a month paid for by magic and it's an incredible blessing. $629.30 worth of formula we don't have to cover. Also being in IL her insurance is required to pay for any formula she eats over the 14 cans. One thing I hear often from people who choose not to get WIC or make too much is that we don't know how much money we're saving or how much we're getting for free. We do. We are VERY grateful.

I don't know any parent who plans to need twenty thousand dollars to feed their kid for their first 2 years. Well for my DD nearly 22 thousand dollars. Yet without it she'd be a very sick little girl dependent on IV nutrition which I'm sure wouldn't be any cheaper.

In other news I am learning more ASL signs to teach my DD. Her speech has not improved although she is beginning to make more chatter, speech like sounds\noises even if they aren't words most of the time. I looked up BOY I tried to teach BROTHER but it's a complicated multi-part sign and she's 2.5 with a short attention span.