Dylan is officially 4!! I took him to the Dr for his yearly check up the other day(started going to a new Dr because our old one would have forced the vaccines on him and I am not quite sure where to go with that right now) and he is looking very healthy and very big! He is 40.8 lbs(84th percentile) and 41 inches(67th percentile). I was impressed with this Dr and he spent a good hour with us discussing both Dylan and Desi and never made me feel rushed. He said his recommendation is to get the vaccines, but he knows that is up to the parents and he will not make me feel that I HAVE TO. I talked to him about getting a titer done to see if his body is immune to the diseases from the first doses and to see if we actually need the second dose. He said 95% of people would come back immune because the first dose actually makes our body immune, but the second dose is to protect in case of a huge outbreak(if I understood correctly) so I don't know what to do. Other than the fact that he will not be going to Kindergarten until he is almost 6, so I am going to take my time and figure it out by then!
I also asked him his opinion on Dylan's head bonk and told him the story and he said if the MRI came back normal than it was probably good and just timed perfectly with the regression. I pointed out how the bump is still visible and seems even more visible lately and at first he wasn't sure. He said he would pull the MRI report and look at it! Later on though, he did explain how the skull fuses together in 4 quadrants and right down the middle of the forehead would be one. He said that when it fused it may have buckled causing the little knot on his forehead, that makes sense. Then he also said maybe when he bonked his head and if it caused a goose bump(which it did) then it could be cartlidge from when it healed and that would always be there. I think that one makes a lot of sense because he had a huge goosebump and if everything is "good" as they say the cartlidge makes good sense. I still wish we could erase that event and see where we were without it though!
We had went down to Nephi on Saturday for a bridal shower, so we decided to celebrate his birthday a couple days early and had cake and ice cream afterwards. He got lots of cute clothes, shoes, money and toys. I found this magnetic fishing game with a fishing pole that I thought he might like because it was something they had at early intervention and he seemed to like it. Boston loves it and has taken over ha ha. Brandon found this blue t shirt that he picked out for him and said it would make Dylan "cuddleable" which it does, ha ha. It looks cute on him! We took some cake up to Grandpa Jack and Grandma Cindy on Sunday and hung out there for a bit.
Monday was his actual birthday, and he had to go to school! He wasn't very happy about it, but when I took him to the bus with a box of donuts, he went willingly! When he got home from school we headed up to 7 Peaks to the North Pole! It is something new this year and we thought it would be fun....thought being the key word! We bundled up because we actually got a lot of snow that day, wahoo! We went to the Lazy River first where they had bumper boats to take you along the river and had it all decorated like the North Pole, he loved that! It was after that that the real "fun" began!
We started walking to find the next station and after a couple minutes I looked down and realized Dylan only had one boot and a sock full of snow! When Brandon got him out of the tube his boot came off. I ran back and grabbed it and so we had to take his sock off and put his boot on. I don't think he liked not having a sock on and kept trying to take his boot off. We saw Santa and hurried and got a picture and then headed to the Avalanche Slide. Brielle and Boston wanted to go on there so Brandon took them up. In the meantime (10 minutes) I wrestled Dylan to get and keep his boots on who knows how many times, put Desi's gloves back on at least 3 times, said a lot of not nice words and am sure people were staring at me wondering what in the world was going on. We decided we were done! We took Dylan's boots off and Brandon carried him to the van. I was hoping we could go on the boat ride again because I knew Dylan loved that, but we were done! Brielle and Bos were so sad to be leaving so soon, so I had to explain that this is what Autism does on outings. We try our best to go and have fun, but we as a family have to work together. Somedays, that means not staying as long as we would like. It isn't fair to them, but hopefully this is also teaching them in the long run about love, respect, patience, etc. Something their Mom really needs to learn!
We grabbed some food at Wendy's and headed to the Festival of Lights! We got a lot of snow that day so it was a good day to go again! Then headed for home! I hope Dylan knows that we tried to make his birthday fun and I hope that he had a great one! I have been doing 20 questions for my older two on their birthday, but since Dylan is nonverbal, I can't do that with him...yet, but hopefully soon! At the Dr I had to answer questions on things he could do, pretty much everyone was "NO" and it made me a little sad because he should be doing all of them, but all we can do is keep pushing forward and hope that it all comes to him one day! We love you Dylan!!
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