Entyced: Happenings

We have a busy toddler in the house. I used to have a cuddly, timid baby boy and now he is all sass. He never wants to be held and he wants to fly crawl around the house. Life in the Matchinsky household is no longer quiet and we love it that way.

This video is about a month old but it was too cute I had to post. Go to my playlist and push pause, it is too cute!!!

October was busy, but beautiful. We had the Step up for Down syndrome walk. We had an amazing turn out and surpassed our goal of 1,000 and ended up with 1,360 that was GREAT!!! We can't thank those who walked with us and donated enough. I also want to thank my friend Betsy who designed our wonderful "All for Tyce, Think BIG shirts". We wore red and white because we are from Holland and we have a lot of Holland High Pride still in us all :). The back of the shirt had a big T and the Down syndrome foot with the extra gap in between the first and second toe, I love that little characteristic on Ty's little toes!!!

October also brought on some fun Halloween festivities. Tyce was our Chicken Little with bat, tights, feathers and glasses.

A very tired Chicken Little

Chewey, Chicken and Chucky

Save the Chicken the sky is falling

He is flying away!

He was so fun, we swear we heard him say trick-or-treat and he said it again the next day at therapy! A very baby version but it sounded like trick-or treat! He also calls Tj dada but mama is not even close to being said ;-(. I will take what we can get.

With October of course comes more Lions Football !

Updates with us. Well I will start with Tyce. Therapy is still going good. I wish he got more one on one time while at group to work on his walking. He is loosing most motivation to walk because he crawls so fricken fast. We hear that the crawling is really strengthening his core so that he can walk, but I feel like all its doing is making him fly around the house. I know it will happen in it's time and when he decides that's what he wants to do, but sometimes I get the mommy guilt of "am I doing enough to help him''? I don't ever want to feel like I am settling with answers I'm given but I also don't want to go nuts sending him to therapy's all the time if the therapist don't feel he needs it, and I want him to be a baby, to have fun. I feel it's all such a balance. He is meeting goals in OT and Speech and he is learning new signs all the time (some of the signs are so similar he starts just throwing his signs everywhere until he gets us to understand what he wants). Today, he brought over a book and wanted it to be read to him while he sat on my lap. He also will come up to me and sign eat when he wants a snack or pucker up and smack his lips for juice. We are breaking some huge understanding barriers here! One of his OT goals was to learn to drink from a straw. I was initially told it was good for him to learn to drink from a straw so I really wanted him to meet this goal/milestone. Well, he hates straws, they are like his enemy. He is in LOVE with his sippy cup and has been drinking from his sippy cup since he was ten months old. Whenever we would bring out the learning straw cup he would throw a tantrum until he got his sippy. Luckily, this past week we were told to no longer push the straw cup use with him. I was told that some kids are cup drinkers and some are straw drinkers. Ty is a cup drinker, he now has a beginners training open cup and he does sooooo well, no spills, of course I give it to him. But that is sooooo exciting, no need to push something that made him so unhappy. In it's time :).

TJ and I have been busy being working and being parents to a very fun little boy. He keeps us on our toes.

In the mornings when I get ready for work Ty likes to do his own thing around the house. Here are this mornings happenings :)