Rhys Evalued

Tuesday morning Rhys and I went to our 9:30a appointment with John at the Westside Regional Center. It was an introductory meeting that lasted almost an hour. It comprised mostly of questions about my pregnancy, Rhys’ early development, how he interacts with others and a bit of interaction between John and Rhys. We left with our next appointment scheduled in a few weeks with a psychologist.

In the meantime I need to schedule a hearing test with Rhys’ pediatrician. I finally received the paperwork from LAUSD Friday and have since mailed it back. All my cards in play.

When we got home dad was there along with the electrician/contractor and his assistant. We were stuck at home without electricity for most of the day, while they worked. The original plan of meeting Mary and the kids at Ben and Jerry’s after school, for the free ice cream cone day event was dashed because a. The work that was being done and b. It was really chilly and not really ice cream weather. Instead we firmed up plans to take the kids to the Natural History Museum with a visit to the Butterfly Pavilion over the weekend.

Rhys and I spent the day running errands. We managed to meet Mary and Isabelle at Target for some supplies. After arming both kids with popcorn and a drink, we set off on our shopping excursion. Rhys and Isabelle were very cute ! Rhys kept running up to Isabelle calling her by name, or what Mary and I think passed as her name. Isabelle started feeding Rhys popcorn straight into his mouth from her own private stash! All in all he was very well behaved, despite endlessly hoisting himself in and out of the shopping cart throughout our trip. We went to Borders afterwards where he went bonkers running wild through the store. When it came time to say goodbye I asked him to give Isabelle a hug and a kiss, he stood there offering her his cheek. Eventually he came around and gave her a nice hug.


Tonight we’re going to get dinner from El Tarasco. It’s Visitation night with 10% of the proceeds from 4- closing benefiting the school. Yum.