Sensory Processing Disorder

My oldest grandson, O, has been diagnosed with Sensory Processing  Disorder. I had never even heard of it.  If caught young, they can deal with it.  Basically, he doesn’t sense things the way we do.  I have put a link on the left if you are interested.  It explains a lot of his little quirks and his behavior.  For instance, he isn’t being stubborn when he doesn’t respond to your efforts at trying to get his attention.  He is being bombarded with too much “noise” and can’t distinguish your voice from the rest of it.  By getting louder and louder we were actually making it worse.  By talking quieter he “hears” us.

It’s really a strange disorder, but it can be dealt with and the child will grow up to be just like everyone else.

Aside from that, I have been searching for some material to make D’s Baptism outfit.  I didn’t realize how hard it was to find cotton sateen in white.  But I did find it yesterday and feel quite relieved.

I have planned to hang out with E and his mom at their place tomorrow.  It may not happen though as we are supposed to get snow.  We’ll see.  The last snow prediction was a bust.

Busy Busy

I wanted to buy my latest grandson the chef outfit from my store, but though he’s only 3 months, he’s already outgrown 6 month size clothes.  And the  baby clothes in my store only come in 0 – 6 month sizes.  I wish I could get the clothes up to size 1, but they only come in the one size.  His big brother would probably have been jealous as he loves to pretend to cook. 

I’ve really neglected my blog lately.  I spent 3 days in a row last week babysitting each grandson, 1 at a time.  So I spent the weekend catching up on the housework.  Then the beginning of this week my husband had cataract surgery.  I’m caught up now and can get back to work.

The newsman said it was going to snow the end of this week.  We’ll see.

It isn’t supposed to stick, so shouldn’t cause too much trouble.  As for me, I like snow.

I made a pillow case for O with pirates all over it.  He loves pirates.  When he was about 2 ½ I bought the old Fisher Price pirate ship on Ebay.  It’s been up in the closet ever since.  I brought it down last week when I was babysitting him.  Wow, was he excited.  That kept him busy for quite awhile.  I think I should check out Ebay again to see what other retro toys I can find.

Now, if I could only find fabric with cars and trucks all over it for a pillow case for E.  And fabric with rocket ships and robots for D’s pillow case.

The Fabulous Onesie

While changing little D today I got to thinking about how great onesies are.

So I decided to see how they got started.  It was invented by Walter Artzt.  He has been describe as a Renaissance man and had quite a sense of humor.

When I investigated the onesie, I learned about other inventions by Mr. Artzt that were responsible for a lot of the baby clothing styles we have today.

In 1963 he invented a method of manufacturing hooded garments.  Some of the cutest baby apparel today are the ones with hoods. 

In 1967 he invented an “infant’s garment of the wrap-around type”.  This wrap around type must be something different than the undershirts my sister put on her babies starting in 1960.  The front sections overlapped each other and were secured with ties.

Mr. Artzt also invented, what I call, the sleeper.  The one piece apparel with feet was patented in 1960.  No more lost booties or socks.

I’d hate to see our new moms of today having to dress their babies as my mother did.  I don’t know much about what my sister wore in 1935, but I have come across a few items that my brother and I wore.  My brother was born in 1948 and I was born in 1950.   I don’t know how my mom kept our little tummies covered when our shirts rode up as we squirmed about.  Or  how she kept our feet warm at night.  Booties and socks never seem to stay on.  Plus everything had to be ironed.  Who has time for that now days?

Moms are lucky today.  They have one less thing to worry about with the implementation of Mr. Artzt’s inventions and the new easy care cotton fabrics free them from the time consuming job of ironing.

Well that’s all I have to say right now.

Grandsons

I guess it would be easier if I gave my grandson's initials instead of how old they are each time I write about them.  So here goes.  One daughter has O who is 3 1/2 (actually 3 3/4) and D who is 2 months old.  And the other daughter has E who just turned 3 and will be having #4 grandchild in September.   I will be babysitting E today while his mom goes in for her check up.  And tomorrow I'll be babysitting D while his mom takes O to a birthday party.  It will be nice for her to have some activity with just O.  And I will get to feed D for the first time.
While decluttering I came across decorations I had saved from my baby shower thirty years ago.  We didn't know back then the gender of the coming little bundle.  Sonograms were new back then and  not used unless a problem was suspected.  I did have one, since I was so big they suspected twins, but the baby wasn't positioned right to tell the gender.  So most showers were just general baby decorations in pastels.  I was thinking back on that shower and what we played then.  I know we played  the old standard clothespin game.  That's where you clip a clothespin to you skirt or pants hem.  You are not to cross your legs.  When someone does cross their legs, the first one to point it out gets that clothespin.  At the end of the shower, the person with the most clothespins wins.  I never even get close to winning because I usually cross my legs right off and then don't pay attention to who else crosses their legs.  But it's fun.
E is on his way over, so I best stop for now.