Just so you know, if the vomit has big enough chunks of chicken nuggets, you should consider removing those chunks from the clothing/towels BEFORE you launder them. Otherwise you may end up picking freshly washed and rinsed chunks of chicken nugget vomit out of your washer, then feeling the need to bleach both the machine and your hands.

Also, it is a good idea to remember that you actually laundered those clothes/towels on Monday, and not leave them in the washing machine until Thursday. Otherwise you may end up picking not-freshly washed and rinsed chunks of chicken nugget vomit out of your washer, then feeling the need to bleach both the machine and your hands, and then having to re-launder those clothes anyway.

And, seriously son? Jeopardy, while the best game show ever invented (including Match Game, where they were always drunk or high), is just not on every minute of every day, and when you pick up the remote control and hand it to me, sometimes I can’t find it for you. We already DVR Signing Time and The Wonder Pets for you, and every “when nature revolts” show for Daddy. Can I please keep my 2 movies that I still haven’t had time to watch on the DVR, and not have them deleted for lack of space? Kthxbye.

It’s been 3+ weeks on the fish oil now. It’s probably still too soon to determine what, if anything, it’s doing. And this week hasn’t been ideal at all for making any judgments. He’s felt like varying degrees of dirt for most of the week, and everything usually takes a step backward during weeks like this.

Here are a couple of things I’ve noticed improving lately, though whether it’s attributable to fish oil or what he would normally be doing is hard to tell.

* Eye contact continues to improve
* He did really well with his new OT, so score one for comfort with strangers
* He’s following some instructions a bit better
* He’s asking for things with ‘more’ on his own without as much prompting
* He goes to his high chair when he’s hungry (or drags the chair around with him) - i.e. the high chair is a good place
* His tantrums, at least in my opinion, have actually been better the last several days, though I didn’t think they were that bad to begin with

Odd mannerisms of the week:

* He REALLY likes Jeopardy
* It’s not unusual for him to refuse to get OUT of his high chair - a problem we’ve never had

We’re just going to write off the downers for the week as due to him feeling ill (a lot more sensory defensiveness, decreased speech) and move on. We’ve cut back on the ‘homework’ this week to let him recuperate. This round of yuck has been short-lived for his usual coughs and colds (which are fairly rare anyway), so that’s a good sign.

Let’s hope next week gets us back on track.

For previous installments:

Day 14
Day 7
Day 1