August 31, 2009

Two weeks into preschool, and Grace is loving it. Three weeks into the valproic acid, and so far no side effects that we've noticed. She'll get her blood drawn next week and we'll know more then.

Grace had a pretty busy weekend. We had some friends and their kids over Friday night, then Saturday she got her hair cut and went to a football tailgate. We laid pretty low yesterday (Sunday), which Grace and I plenty of time to play school. That's one of her favorite things to do. Yesterday I got to be the teacher and she was the student--often times it's the other way around.

August 22, 2009

So far so good two weeks in to Grace's VPA experiment. We haven't seen any side effects, and she's taking the medicine with her food just fine. This next week we up her dose half of the full dose.

This morning Grace is planning a play. Right now she's huge into thinking up plays and then acting them out. Pretty soon we have a dress rehearsal coming up, because as Grace just told me, "you need to practice if you're gonna have a good play." She's also huge into dress up right now, and thankfully she has enough princess dresses that we can accommodate her demands.

August 17, 2009

Grace starts her second year of preschool today! She's eating her breakfast as we speak and can hardly contain her excitement. We're grateful that's she's such a social kid--she's not one bit scared or shy about going back. She'll be in the same classroom as last year with the same teachers and aide, so that's a comfort to us. What a difference a year makes, because we were really apprehensive last year with her starting her first year.

She's been on valproic acid for a week now, and nothing to report. We're only giving her a quarter dose right now, and next week we'll up it to a half dose. She takes it with yogurt, and so far it hasn't been a problem to get her to eat the yogurt. We just open up the capsules and poor the sprinkles in the food.

August 9, 2009

Today we're starting Grace on valproic acid and carnitine, and we're looking forward to seeing what happens. Best case scenario, Grace feels a little stronger or at least stops regressing. Worse case scenario, she has some side effects and we stop the treatments. We'll monitor Grace closely and see what happens.

We spent a couple days this past weekend in Okoboji and spent much of our time doing what Grace loves most--swimming. We also took her on a boat ride around the lake, and she loved that as well. Pretty much anything on the water--she's gonna love it.

We'll try to get some Race 4 Grace updates and pictures on the website soon.