alyssasblessings

Yeap!, it has been two years that I have not written anything about Alyssa. Well, we might be busy about life, school, and so on. As usual, we have our ups and downs...(no pun intended here!). We are just living life with a six year old who does not stop. Is she active?...yes she is....lots of energy, in fact too much energy that I can take.  Anyway, where are we now...Oh yeah, the hair!. Sensitivity issues are a huge concern, specially for her. Fine hair that tangles can be the real enemy for Alyssa. Her hair was so pretty.. she had wavy long layers of fine hair that no matter what I did, it still got tangled. I had no other choice... had to chop it off because it got so tangled one day that made us both cry. Well, she is now rocking a short bob, tangle free ( I might add). She still active, going to school. Speaking a bit more. She has grown a lot. We are heading to have a 7 year old girl in September. Sadly but truly, still weak in the potty training department. I do not wan...

People say : time is a healer... maybe it is true. It has been a while since I do not post anything in Alyssa's blog which I started to write as a way of therapy for my own sake. I have been so busy.... So, where are we? ... Alyssa is four years old...going on 5 years this September coming up (Yeah!!).  Summer was fun, had to take off almost a month, mostly work the weekends to spend time with her. She still goes to therapy twice a week: we have speech and OT which are the main focus since the low tone is where lacks the most. She usually receives PT at her school in addition to her twice a week in school therapies. We are talking people....it might not be the same as a typical 4 year old, but I think it is better than nothing. Our main goal is to say two words at once, at least when she is doing her therapy.She is kind of bilingual, I try to speak to her mostly in English since that is what school teaches her, yet little words: "agua", "a comer" are so pe...

It is amazing how time goes by! Alyssa turned 9 months on June 29( yet she should be 8 months due to her premature birth). There is always a lot of questions: what is she doing ?, is she crawling? Is she standing? Does she says mama?. Well this post is to bring you up to date on how is she doing. Due to her low tone issues,Alyssa does therapy almost everyday, she is off the weekends, but I TRY to do it on my own those days. In reality, therapy never ends, but it doesn't mean we are always on top of it. She started sitting on her own for 40 seconds at 7 months, now at 9 months, we are sitting for over a minute. I always say "until she feels like it". When it really happened, I was so amazed how a single milestone can bring so much hope. At 8 months, she started rocking(whoohoo!), all fours for us means we can start training on crawling. I remember my son Chris never crawled, he went to standing up and walking by 13 months. Now to the point, all kids are different, Down Sy...