* Enzo’s Disney Car collection
Category Archives: sensational kid
Giggling Tooth
Oh the drama! We’re eating dinner last night and Enzo goes into a spaz and runs to the bathroom hysterical. Turns out his bottom front tooth was suddenly loose. He cried and whined through dinner and we eventually decided that dinner was done for him and he wanted to save his dinner for breakfast. He cried and whined while getting ready for bed. Although he stopped long enough to stare in the mirror. Then cried and whined again while getting into bed.
I was really glad to see he wasn’t hysterical anymore this morning (really really glad! not sure how much of that I was gonna be able to take). He has spent much of the morning in the bathroom staring and wiggling his tooth. After one of his many bathroom trips, he ran out to say:
“Mommy my tooth is gonna fall out soon because it keeps on giggling all over like this *he proceeds with a silly dance*!”
Grocery Shopping Horror
Oh boy…I spent a little over 2 hours on a grocery trip that didn’t even buy a week’s worth of food. I never realized how much dairy and/or food containing any form of milk products my kids eat. No wonder we don’t have picky eaters; we only ever buy the foods my kids eat…dairy and gluten. I think I’m in trouble.
I just need to at least get past breakfast meals. The only foods my kids ever eat for breakfast is cereal and milk or waffles….all of which contain milk (products).
I have a feeling this is going to be a long week….this better be worth it!
Currently reading
It’s so overwhelming to read up on diet alternatives for kids like Enzo. While there’s no guarantee it will help, alot of the stuff we’ve read seems to point that it helps with some of the symptoms/behaviors that SPD exhibit. He’s not autistic but SPD is on the same spectrum. And even tho he hasn’t ever been officially diagnosed with ADHD, that would not come as a surprise if he did.
So here we are…I’m terrified of the initial side effects or withdrawal symptoms that some kids get. Everywhere I’ve read says that these kids are ‘addicted’ to casein (dairy) and gluten just like a drug addict. They get the same natural ‘high’ that druggies get with their choice of drug, it says it’s the same effects people get when taking opiates. So withdrawal can be like detoxing from drugs.
That sounds sooooo extreme! Hopefully we don’t see anything drastic like that. I know the South Beach diet gives me the nastiest headaches and grouchiest moods….oh oh oh! Someone want offer to take Enzo home for a week or so while he detoxes from his food addiction??
I wanted to start the dairy/casein free today but we weren’t prepared for it. All we have in the fridge/pantry is cereal, milk and buttermilk waffles for breakfast. HA! That’s all dairy. oops we’ll have to try tomorrow. Although I have this crazy thing about starting on a Sunday or Monday…starting Tuesday is so…mid-week? and makes it feel so chaotic and not right…but yes that the OCD in me. hmm maybe I’ll benefit from the same diet! We’ll have to see…
Gluten-Free
Any of the SPD families out there successfully implement a gluten-free diet for their chiild? I know “success” is relative but I guess what I mean is that you saw a definite change and improvement in your child. Or just other families that follow a gluten-free diet.
Anyone have any insight on SPD and the gluten-free diet? How and where do I even begin? There’s so much info on the internet that I’m lost! Help please…And it sounds like a lot of work and effort so I want to make sure that it’s worth the energy and time.
Gremlin or Vampire?
He doesn’t like the sun (or any bright light esp flashing/moving lights).
Too loud
Really?? We walk in a restaurant (any place really that has a lot of random unorganized noise) and it’s too loud for him. It’s really not all that loud but too loud for him nonetheless. He looks funny, still cute tho (Thank you Lord for such a cute face!). But hey I’m not complaining, especially when it keeps him still and focused on what’s in front of him. I mean really…funky head accessories or a spazzed out Enzo??
Yes, I choose the funky fashion too. =)
Mummy or Butterfly?
Enzo craves being snuggled, squished and rolled…some days more than others. So when he asked to be rolled up in this crazy soft blanket, it was a welcomed request on this particular morning. Yes, our day had barely started and we were more than ready to be squished. He has his pj’s on to prove it! Oh what a day! =) Btw, his choice of pj’s is another post for another day.
So he was telling us a story as I rolled him up. He said he was like a caterpillar in a cocoon – spinning and spinning. Then one day struggle to come out as a butterfly. Although half way through his story he remembered a story we listened to for history (Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer). King Tut was carefully wrapped with cloth and ‘smell good stuff’ – his mummy. But in the end he decided he was a butterfly because King Tut didn’t come out of his mummy cloth.
He can tell me his story any way he pleases as long as he comes out ready to start his day! 
An Appeal
Dear Confused Florida Weather,
The chill in the air you are so graciously providing is turning my Enzo into a sensory mess. Please make up your mind – cold or warm?
Better yet, how about leaving us with consistently beautiful, yet breezy, spring weather…one that will leave Enzo focusing his sensory energies elsewhere. =)
Love,
Me
PS. Please reconsider your cold wet days too. The sound of your raindrops, along with the chill in the air, keeps the yoga ball occupied…A LOT! I’m sure Mr. Yoga Ball would appreciate a break, as would my arms and back. Feel free to use the picture below as inspiration for your decision. Thanks.
Meet Enzo
[via SPD Foundation]
I found these today on the Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation website. They have these to print out as cards for over-whelmed SPD parents. Where was this 3 years ago? haha would have been so much easier than trying to explain something I couldn’t understand either.
HOWEVER, now that its been almost 3 years since Enzo’s diagnosis, this (in my opinion) comes across apologizing for my child’s disability. Not sure how I feel about that because I don’t think anyone should have to apologize for their child’s disability. But then again when you’re an over-whelmed mom that’s kind of what you (or we) do right? I guess this would be pretty useful for the over-whelmed parent who can’t figure where to even begin explaining. I should know, we were there and still are a lot of the time.
But hey at least my kid has an excuse for being a nut and all over the place…what’s your child’s excuse?? haha I am SOOOOOOOOO just kidding!! =)
You know God definitely has a sense of humor. What are the chances that God would give one family 2 kids that have SPD and the kids aren’t even biologically related?! Not only do we have 2 kids with SPD but they are two different types of SPD kids – we have a sensory avoider/defensiveness and then we have Enzo, the sensory seeker/crasher (if you’ve been around Enzo, then you know exactly what that is). We make a hilarious household if you have that kind of sense of humor (which btw, I don’t) And we thought Lizzie would be our high maintenance child because of her medical needs…hahaha God is showing off his sense of humor I tell ya!
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