I will be transitioning Simone onto full GAPS by the end of January and I am a bit apprehensive about it. Its not that I don’t believe in this diet, it comes from more of knee jerk reaction to the fact that rice milk will be phased out. She loves her rice milk and its [...]
Yesterday Vicki, Simmi and I took a ride up to Sam’s Club to pick up lamb for the 28th (We’ll be celebrating Christmas then) and then to Williams Sonoma and Kohls. For those of you who know me, I do NOT like going to the stores, especially during the holidays, but I made an exception [...]
Simone can now sing her ABC’s with 100% accuracy. While the letters themselves are a bit fuzzy at times, she is saying each one. When I’m singing them with her she is looking at my mouth as I sing and she is crystal clear with each letter. She’s still fuzzy on the song that comes [...]
Back in September 2011 I took a video of Simmi while she ate her meat and rice. Her diet basically consisted of chicken, pork, some fish, beef, rice, homemade potato chips, corn tortilla chips, and special cookies made from rice flour, potato flour, egg replacer and other ingredients she can eat. She also can eat [...]
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I have very encouraging yet cautious news to report about Simone’s speech. Over the last few weeks we’ve been working on changing her diet to accommodate the GAPS diet and transition her in very small steps. While I’m not one for reporting on anecdotal stories, I’m going to make an exception here. As anyone who [...]
I’ve been doing quite a bit of research on the GAPS diet (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) for Simone and realized that our whole family could benefit from being on GAPS. When I first started reading about it I thought there was no way Simone could safely follow this program, but as I continued reading, I [...]
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Happy Birthday Simone! Thank you for being in our lives and making each day so special for us. Even though you don’t understand what a birthday is, you like the birthday song! We’ve been practicing with you to say “I’m four” and to hold up your four fingers. Sometimes you can do it, sometimes you [...]
Simmi loves going into our back courtyard and playing on the swings. She loves throwing a ball back and forth and then running after it. She also has a great affinity for rocks of all shapes, sizes and colors. She loves to collect them, put them in her pockets or a bucket and carrying them [...]
Simmi truly is the sweetest thing in the world. As I sat with her today, we watched Alice in Wonderland and I couldn’t help but tear up as she started acting out a part of the movie. Alice was in the garden and the flowers were singing to her. Simone bursts out in song, waving [...]
Today Simone’s speech therapist came and finally gave a diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech. In September 08′ a neuro-developmental pediatrician had given Simmi a partial diagnosis of “speech disorder of unknown origins.” It can take a long time for a child to be diagnosed with a speech disorder, and after almost a year of working [...]
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