Very Exciting Last Few Weeks

These last few weeks have been insane and have called for much needed mid day naps. Lots of things going on in the Thomas house hold these last few weeks starting with me finding out I am pregnant. We are very excited/ nervous for the new adventures ahead. Eli is happy to be a big brother. He says there is a baby in mommy's belly and his too. We are expecting a June baby. I have lived off of a 3 year olds diet because it is all that sounds good to me. Foods like, PB&J, chicken nugget,s and macaroni and cheese. All in all, everything with that seems to be going well.

I finally had the meeting with the school to go over Eli's progress. He had been tested for speech and other special education classes. (Some special classes such as group play and appropriate age play) He passed the special education classes and basically got the same review for speech that we had received at the other speech office.  We will have a speech therapist meet him at school 1 day a week and work with him. After one year he will be re-evaluated for his IEP (individualized education plan). Im glad to get the extra opinion and extra help while he is young so hopefully we can catch on quickly.

Speech and OT have been going pretty well. We are still working through a few melt downs but getting new approaches to work with him is very helpful. We are working on 'G' 'SH''K' & 'F' sounds right now. All sounds that come from the back of the mouth are hard for him. It is easier for him to use the front of his mouth and substitutes his sounds that are harder with the sounds that come from the front.

Andrew had me listen to some old voice mails that Eli and I had left him on his voice mail from work. They went back from when he was about 18 months old to just last week. WOW! We have come a LOOONG way in the last few months. He was very difficult to understand. I don’t think that I truly knew how bad it was because I knew what he was saying because I was always around him. His progress in incredible! I think that he may just be a little bit of a slower learner which is completely OK with me because I can be too. I think some things may not come as easy and fast as it does to other children.Some things he gets faster than other children.  Society puts such a emphasis on what is "normal" that is it scary when your child does not fall into that category at every landmark. I know my child is unique and created in God's image and he is perfect to me. He is his own individual and even though some things are tough, we will get there! I feel very encouraged that we will kick this speech and sensory issues to the curb before kindergarden.

So that is what is new for us.

-Brittany