Good Day!!! Spencer was great (as usual). My mom was here. Rachel was a little fussy. She made another hard as a rock poopy and you know it had to hurt her little bum. Then she finally made a loose poopy. I stopped the rice cereal in her bottle yesterday and mixed her breakfast cereal with apple juice, hoping that would do the trick. It did. My mom asked a couple of times how long before I would give karo syrup and I just said give it time, let her body adjust. And I was right. I don't feel that way very often.

Speech therapy went well. When Spencer and I sang our modifed wheels on the bus song, the therapist perked up quite a bit. After that Spencer did great and was mimicing like a pro. I also found out that I shouldn't be asking him to say things (whether I expect a response or not) just pausing after I say a word with the implied expectation that he will try. Then reward whatever he says.

He noted when my mom arrived, ran to the door. He definitely recognized Miss Jen (therapist), though he wasn't excited to see her. He backed away actually. Same for Mike's arrival. He noted it and went to the door to see who it was, but wasn't really excited. He's just started getting excited to see me arrive in the last week or so, so hopefully daddy, grandma, and others can follow. He's now running to the door to see who it is, he wasn't even doing that before.

Rachel didn't want to go to sleep, but she finally did. She didn't nap well either. Poor little thing. She's getting so cute. When she lays on the floor, you can just tell she's ready to take off. Her body is not so ready yet though. Not too much longer though.

She's eating her cereal like a pro. Yesterday she realized that if she opens her mouth, I can put food in. No problems after that ;o).

I'm hoping to host a regular playdate for the playgroup here. It's going to be every other Friday starting next Friday. I hope it goes well.

We're supposed to have severe storms tonight and I here the rumblin' in the distance. I love a good storm. As long as there's no tornados. I HATE tornados!

Oh, I and I think Spencer said 'good' today, as in good job. I say that to him about 75 bazillion times a day, and after he did something tonight he was running away and I distinctly heard "good" come out. He talked all day, didn't shut up hardly at all. Was even reading aloud again. He's been quiet about reading lately. We were also passing cars back and forth. And I redirected his attention successfully several times. I felt bad at therapy when they tried to do that and had trouble. We always let him lead the way at home, but I guess it's time for me to say, "hey we are going to do this now." He's doing well though. I feel like the light bulb was really on today for most of the day.

Oh well, I'm going to check the weather page and make sure there's no tornados coming our way.

One more thing. Mike was having trouble getting in to see a psychiatrist. I think I mentioned that he felt he was asking for help and not getting any. So I called a couple places today and got him an appt. Coincidentally, the place I got the appt was the place that hadn't called him back yet and they had our doctor's referral right there. He's got an appt next week. He was VERY appreciative when I told him.