December update for Ki

Kiana is doing well. She is on a gluten and casin free diet to try and help with some of the Autism behaviors and her life long diareahha issue. luckily it's been helping and its been almost 2 weeks since i've had to change a diarea diaper. Kiana will be starting school in january. She still has an ear infection and if it wasn't for her running a fever i would have never even known.  She has also started taking a little more since we've taken her off all milk and wheat products other than a few things that she manages to get into. She's still bad about hitting which we are now working on.

Quick Ki update

Ki has had two ear infections in 10 days so has been pretty miserable. She also has a cold and fever. Ki loves to play with trains and cars. We're still working on some of her behavioral issues due to her autism but lately since she's been sick she's mostly been sleeping so no issues there. She is now seeing the early intervention people every week and a therapist every two weeks. next month they will be trying to get her into a special education preschool at the girls elementary school.

Autism

Kiana is mildly autistic which i guess it's good that we found out now rather than when she's older and in school. She still isn't making eye contact with anyone and doesn't want to play with her sister or anyother children.  Kiana is also still throwing the worst tantrums and gets very violent. She is also always banging her head into whatever she can find. We have found things that Kiana likes to do however, she loves to string beads on elastic cord and play with trains and cars. Kiana is also still on her pacifier however now its just used as a chew toy and to keep her from chewing on clothes and other toys like her cars and everything else she can find. to find out more about autism check out http://www.autismspeaks.org/ or http://www.autism-society.org/ or you could just google it too.

Another quick update on Ki

We had another appointment with a therapist for Ki Friday and did another assessment and put in a referral so that she can be tested for autism. In the mean time she will be seeing a therapist to work on helping her with her aggression and to help her with boundaries.  Kiana is still not talking understandably at least not much.  She is also now on a gluten and casein(milk protein) free diet to see if it helps any with some of the issues that we've been having with her digestion. Kiana has also been throwing the worst temper tantrums ever lately. while at Aelita's school she tried to throw a chair at me because i wouldn't let her have any juice that the other kids were having for snack.

Quick update on Ki

Today i called Kiana's pediatrician and she did a survey over the phone on kiana's progress and now they want me to take her to wasatch mental health to have her tested for Autism. so when i get out of school i have to call them and make an appointment to get the testing done.

Kiana is doing well, she's still not talking much at all but we're working on it. she has an early intervention appointment on monday so we will see what happens.  She has also started to get really fustrated and angry lately if you don't figure out what she wants and will throw everything too.

kianaisms

every sunday when aelita goes to sit with another family in the ward kiana will look under pews and everywhere and say "dita go?"

she also now will run around the little island in the kitchen at meal time and make me chase her in order to put her in her booster chair.

she loves to throw rocks whether it be in the water or in the street

she loves to go for walks outside and help in our friends yards when they're pulling weeds and trimming trees and bushes.

Kiana also loves to wrestle and tends to bully her big sister.