After Josh came home from Alaska I finally called our realtor & told her we just wanted to talk about putting our house up for sale. That Sunday night we put the sign in the yard & Monday we were officially on the market! Thursday we had an offer & the weekend after Labor Day we moved out!! It was CRAZY trying to move out of the house in 3 weeks with a 5 year old, a soon to be 2 year old & a dog. Josh & I truly believed it would be at least 6 months before we sold the house not 3 days! What a blessing... I think. Not knowing what was coming next, we moved in with Josh's parents... AGAIN! We couldn't decided whether to build or buy or rent until we decided what to do next. We looked at houses we liked but they didn't have everything we were wanting. We decided once and for all to build, but living here in his parents house, again my just drive me to drink. His parents, his 21 year old brother, the ever present girlfriend, Maddie Gray sleeping on a mattress on the floor in Josh & my room, and Mac in his crib in the only other free room in the house. Alcohol could start being involved in this situation... I kid really. We have picked out a lot that we can't buy until after the first of the year because the neighborhood needs to have the utilities run & the roads have to be paved. We also have plans. The thought of living here until after school starts next year makes me sick & nervous, but I know once we are finished & I am filling up my pots with my pot filler it will be all worth it! I may have to use this blog to keep every body up to date on what's going on with things.
2 weeks ago I took Mac for his 2 year old check up, and I was told he is failure to thrive. He's between the 3rd & 5th percentiles. The doctor may as well have told me he wasn't even on the scale! That same day Mac was tested for everything from cancer to celiac and all came back negative. Praise God it wasn't "The C word" but I still can't shake the feeling that something more isn't going on with him. We started him on an appetite stimulator but thus far I haven't seen any results. I was expecting to eat everything we put in front of him but that's not been the case. He's supposed to be on it a week and then off a week. He starts back tomorrow, and I will more than likely increase his dose to see if that helps. What do other parents do when every test has come back negative but they still feel that something isn't right with their child? I feel like I've always done a fair job of being the "voice" for my children but part of me feels like I'm failing him. We are also supposed to be seeing a speech pathologist because even though he talks some, most of it comes out sounding like Chinese. I love the sweet gibberish and that is really the least of my worries. I can say with complete certainty I WILL NOT miss the crazy toddler meltdowns because I don't know what he wants & he's flipping out because he can't communicate with me. We go back to the doctor next month for a weight & height check so I guess when I update on the house stuff I will update on Mac too!
