Friday

Mira has had an up and down last few days. She is fairly quiet and in a decent mood in the afternoon and around dinner time, but the mornings have been a little rough. She has been refusing to drink more than one bottle at most, when she usually has two, which means that she ends up getting hungry at school much earlier than usual. It seems to throw her whole internal clock off for the rest of the day and she ends up being cranky by dismissal time, which ultimately means she is cranky on the bus ride home, as she was today. Yet, she won't drink enough in the morning and she gets fussy, for whatever reason, so she ends up back in her bed until a few minutes before the bus arrives until she calms down. It's a vicious cycle. Ultimately, she has been ending the last few days on a high note, drinking a ton for dinner, then having some extended toy time before bed. Tonight in fact, she went almost a solid hour of playing with the toy, before getting worn out. We have had some very positive success since reintroducing the toy - she hasn't had any seizures or even twitches when playing and it certainly isn't acting as a trigger as it used to in the past. We will continue with it, unless we start to see some familiar patterns emerge. Sarah is in Cincinnati visiting her sister, so I will be holding down the fort with the kids until Sunday afternoon, so we will all be trying to find some fun things to do for the weekend. Wish me luck!