Keeping up with the Kreft's: brrr... it's cold!

I went to bed listening to the news last night stating there was a slight chance of snow today, well, living in the Pacific Northwest that usually means one thing... Rain... and when I woke up that's exactly what I saw, rain and tons of it... I didn't think too much of it and started getting ready for my day. About 20 minutes later I went to open the blinds and was shocked when I saw some giant white flakes falling! I was even more shocked when I left about 20 minutes after that only to see that the flakes were actually sticking and growing in size! To me it looked like giant feathers floating down from the sky! It was so beautiful!

Of course I had to text Ray and let him know, as he is the one who LOVES THE SNOW (which I normally do not!). His response to me? "Ha, ha, it's like 70 here and supposed to be in the 80's on Friday." Nice, huh? As if that wasn't bad enough, he then calls me and tells me that since it is "so warm" he thinks he might "go to the pool." Yeah, I know, let's beat him!

The boys are chomping at the bit to get out and play in it but due to school work, ot and meetings at Home Choice meetings coupled with the fact that they all have colds I'm being mean and keeping them indoors today. Not a popular mom!

According to the weather men we should have snow throughout the week and weekend so hopefully they will get a chance to play!

Today was started by our weekly appointment for Occupational Therapy for Joshua. I was excited to go see Julia, his therapist, as I came across some info last week that I wanted her input on. I was reading some homeschooling blogs and came across one called "the arrowed zoo" in which Kayla, the mom, discusses something called "CAPD" I was curious as to what that was so decided to read a little further.

"CAPD" is short for "Central Auditory Processing Disorder." It's a disorder the affects the way children (and adults) process information they hear. Children with this disorder tend to have problems in many areas, including focus, writing, spelling, reading, math (word problems) as well as other issues. Many times this disorder is confused for ADHD but children can be affected with both.

As most of you know, Joshua suffers from ADHD and has been diagnosed since he was in kindergarten. He is on medication for this but there is still something else going on. We have not been able to pinpoint what it is though and that is one of the reasons we take him to OT. So once I came across this information I instantly wanted to call Julia and ask what she thought. So I did and left her a message stating that I wanted to talk to her about it today. When I arrived at OT she cam out with some information, some of which I had already seen online, regarding "CAPD" and also stated that she had the same thoughts as I did regarding this. As messed up as it sounds I was excited to think someone else, who had experience with this, saw the same things I did.

I had also called my pediatrician to see about getting an authorization to have Joshua seen by and audiologist and tested. Today I received the call that the auth was approved and we have an appointment for next month. Of course it's a four hour appointment so we will be spending the better part of our day there. However, I am excited that we may be able to figure out what's going on and have some tools to help him!

It's another of the many reasons that I am so glad to have taken on this journey of homeschooling. If I had not, who knows how much longer he would have gone struggling without us really knowing.

Well, that's all for now. We have to go make lunch and head to Home Choice for our "DRA" which is a "District Reading Assessment" (you do not want to know how long it took me to figure out what "DRA" meant!)

In the mean time, here are some pics for you to enjoy of the boys doing their work today, what is left of the snow (I took pics of the snow falling earlier but they are on my cell and I don't know how to import them). Have a good day and stay warm!