Latest Neurological Studies

Yesterday we had our yearly meeting with the neurologist that has the big picture about V. She ordered the MRI-scan that showed that he has the lack of myelin in the first place. That was almost 18 months ago.

 

She was very happy to see V again. And she didn´t think that we need to do another MRI right now. Maybe when he´s 7 or 8 years old. She won´t be able to see anything else, anything more right now.

And the neurologist also said that she is convinced that V will be able to speak. Two things made her say that:

• V has broken the code to sign language. He understands that a sign means something and that different signs stand for different things. (He now can make 60 signs by himself, and understands even more)
• V has a few words that he can speak, though not so clear. Mommy and Daddy are the two that really works, but sometimes he says some occassional words.

Judgeing from her own expierency of children with similar difficullities and abillities chances are pretty good that V will learn the art of speaking.

Then the neurologist said one thing that was... both good and bad in some strange way.

She said that V has developed better than she first had feared.

That was nice to hear. V is doing pretty well. But on the other hand - it meant that the neurolgist had feared something that she hadn´t told us.
Maybe that´s good. But now I wonder what she fear now? What is she really thinking about V?
Is she holding back?

And at the same time I know that she can´t tell us about her thoughts and feelings - just her medical opinions based on some kind of facts. And that´s the way it should be.

It´s just that... I want every single answer to the enigma V is.

Frustration - and relief at the hospital.

The Perfect Place to put a Flash Chase Diecast

Ooooooooo yessssss!

It´s shiny, it´s glassy aaaaaand: it´s TURNING!!

It´s powered by a standard battery and has a very nice, well... not so nice, sound to it, and... did I mention that it turnes around? One round takes 20 seconds.

With a turning place for your car - it is easy to spot it even from a distance. The eye draws to movement - and your Flash will get the attention it deserves!

3 year body in a 2 year mind

He´s quick now. V. Always on the move. Running, checking, playing, fingering, testing.
Especially my nerves.

He´s like the average 2-year-old who´s climbing and exploring. But with the reach and strenght of a 3-year-old.

Hence - greater the possible damage.

I was taking a shower this weekend. For five minutes I left A and V without attention. No problems with A - he just kept on watching people play Super Mario on youtube (yes, he´s soo much wanting a Nintendo Wii for this X-mas).
But V...

He decieded to make some coffee on his own.

When I came out to the kitchen... well, the picture give you an idea huh?

It took me 20 minutes to clean the mess up. It was coffee in every drawer.

So that´s the equation ritght now - for X minutes of time alone I got 4X minutes of boring disaster cleaning.

It´s great though, V is evolving and likes to do things by himself now. "I CAN" he would shout, if he could. But the message is getting through anyway.

Action speaks louder than words.



Tomorrow: You WILL see the perfect way to place a SUPEROVANLIG Chase Disney Pixar Mattel Diecast Cars 2 Flash! - Only at this blog ladies and gentlemen!

My Name is not Chuck - update

Tried to update yesterday from my smartphone but Bloggers app wasn´t that sweet.

So here is the piece of news that I´ve tried to send yesterday - but now with better pictures.

I went by the cute little shop that mix flowers with cars and found this little fella!
(Scroll down in this article if you want to read about the shop)

 My Name Is Not Chuck - Angry but hard to get.

That means that now I got 23 out of 28 pittys.

UPDATE ON MY GOALS:

Goals reached:

35 out of 35 Rubber Tires Piston Cup Race Cars

100 % 

11 out of 11   Team Chiefs from Cars 1

100 %

Goals left:

23 out of 28 Pittys from Cars 1 to collect - 5 left

80 %

10 out of 11 Rubber Tires World Grand Prix Race Cars
from Cars 2 to collect - 1 left

95 %

1 out of 10 Team Chiefs from Cars 2 to collect - 9 left

10 %

1 out of 6 Ultimate Chase Cars from Cars 2 to collect - 5 left

15 %

Two new Ultimate Chase is out

I´ve got two new hard goals to reach as both Long Ge Ultimate Chase and Vitaly Petrov Ultimate Chase now is on the market.

Long Ge is in the Chinese version of Cars 2 instead of Flash (that we saw in Sweden)

And Vitaly Petrow is in the Russian version.

Latest news about Flash is that the Swedish site www.playlek.se is offering us customers who´d signed up for the special news letter about Flash to buy thier first copys. The price: 700 SEK - that´s almost exactly 100 USD. And 200 SEK (30 USD) more than I payed on Ebay.

I´m an economic guru! My pension is saved!

Don Crumlin and Dos Lightnings

Can´t write much - The new episodes of Dallas is on TV - yeah, it´s in Sweden now too! :)
These three cars is the newest in my collection. Don Crumlin sits perfect between Acer and Grem.

 You can see all of the Lemons in my collection here.


I´m no completist, I don´t need one of every single variation car ever released. There are more than 30 different McQueens so this next one is somewhat difficult to explain why I bought. But there´s one simple answer: 29 SEK - that´s 4,50 USD... Very cheap in Sweden!

 Lightning McQueen with Racing Wheels. Cheap. But nothing special.

The next one is a given. When I looked through the collection the other day I was surprised that I didn´t already got it. It´s beautiful!

Radiator Springs McQueen! Love it!


Ok. Now - JR, Southfork, Bobby and som dirty oil! But as a cliffhanger:
How to display a jewel - what would the most suiting way to show Flash to the world? The answer is coming later this week!

Numbers are... surprisingly great!

Latest quarter has been... rather a success for this blog! I´m very surprised that almost 30 people a day read my thoughts and worries about V and my cars.

Even though this blog started as a way to handle the stress over V and his brain damage, it was something that I made to keep my self busy, of course I wanted people to read. No point going online otherwise.

One of my readers is a person that I´ve gotten close to, in lot´s of ways. Actually we share the same situation, although in different countries. We´re both parents of a disabled kid. Getting to know this person is something I´d never could have done wothout writing here.

But it´s also very nice to know that readers across the world (according to blogger.com and it´s statistics) seem to care about my cars and my family, if only at a very shallow degree. But you tend to come back, and read again and again. Thank you all!

The first peak in the statistics came when Take Five A Day did a small piece about me and my blog in january this year. But last month I got the same amount of readers without that special help. But I guess that most of you guys come from T5 (as we hardcore readers call the big Kahuna of Cars Diecast Blogs).

You are more than welcome to share thoughts, ideas or cars - just email me on toddthepizzatruck@gmail.com - I´d love to hear from you!

Or do as one of my other most true readers - use the commentary field down below - yeah I´m looking at you Bumper Save! Keep ´em commin´! :)

V goes bananas

I read somewhere that the avarage comsumtion of bananas is 20 per person and year in Sweden.
V is one Swede that makes that figure closer to 21 than 19. The last two years V always eats a banana before he goes to bed at night.

That´s 365 bananas every year. At least - when we go for a pic nic, to the beach or for a long car ride - we always pack a few extra bananas.

Last night V did a small break through. He managed to peal his own banana for the first time.

Great moment!

New list

I´ve added a new page to the site - the single number system - with some pictures. Look here!

New photos

I´ve added som more photos of my cars, look here.

My intention is to take photos of my entire collection, but I´m in no hurry and take a few cars now and then. All photos are in this page.

What kids like. Really.

We concluded our four weeks vacation with a trip to Åbo/Turku, Finland.
It´s easily done from Stockholm, you just take the large ferry (a kind of cruising vessel) and cruise through the Swedish and Finnish archipelago. Absolutely lovlely!

Our main destination was the Moominworld - for you americans reading this: it is a very small theme park. Not at all comparable to Disney World. But it was nice. Lot´s of stuff to do for the kids!

We got to meet some of the characters from the books of theMoomintrolls

The next day we went to a crazy park - the JukuPark for some water fun. And it sure was. I think I rode nine different giant water slopes! But for the kids... Well A has inherit my bathing genes. And that´s not a good thing. He is what you would call... a chicken.

Fun fun fun - in water land!

 

 

V, on the other hand, likes to train his swiming, but now it was too crowded and too much noise for him. He don´t like that. Too many impressions at the same time.


But on the last evening V found his favourite thing on the whole trip. And that was not what you would expect.
We had gone out to eat on a restaurant when V, tired of waiting for his meal, went on a stroll. And found... this:

9 different water slopes? Why? When you could go in the same escalator for more than 9 times?

A rainbow colored escalator!

We went up one time and he was laughing out loud all the way. Then a regular flight of stairs down. And then up. Again. And again. And again.
I lost count after 21.

Funny. We spent a lot of money to visit two parks, to cross the sea, to live in a hotel. But the best thing was an escalator.

Sorry, a rainbow colored escalator. That might explain it.