We have Spencer's speech therapy again tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to it. Again. This is only our third session. I told Spencer tonight that we'd be going to see Miss Amy in the morning and he said "yes, Ms. Am..., NO! No Ms. Amy". Yeah, it's going to go well. :o(.
I've been making him say everything in sentences instead of single words. I might have written that already, I can't remember. But instead of "Dora?" meaning "I want to watch Dora on TV, please", I'm actually making him say the full sentence. He fought me at first, but everyday the words get clearer, less just mimicked and more thoughtfully spoken. That's a big distinction for him. Today he actually used a few sentences on is own. Simple things like "Oh-no, I'm stuck" when he was pretending to be a train, and "Daddy play Diego?" when he wanted Mike to play our Wii Diego game.
And the turn taking, game playing thing that Ms. Amy pushes him soooo hard to do? Well he's doing just fine with us at home playing simple games. He even seemed to understand that he won last night! And today he was chasing Audrey around and every time she said (screamed) "my turn" he would slow and let her pass so he could chase her.
He put a tangram puzzle back together yesterday. It was just the basic square, but it's a challenge to me as often as it is not. I was shocked when I saw him slip the last piece into place. Today though he put a couple pieces in, then couldn't fit any more and just walked away, so it may have just been dumb luck. Like the first time I sat him on the potty when he was 18 months old and peed just like a big boy. Yeah, that's never happened again.
And he was putting some pieces of his farm puzzle together tonight. And asking for more presents, again lol.
Rachel's whining has diminished significantly too. I noticed a new tooth had completely cut. Coincidence? I think not. Ironically, she has now cut 15 teeth while Spencer is still working on the same molars that he was working on when she started cutting her first tooth.
So she's doing well. Her face has thinned out in the last couple of weeks, and she's looking much more like a toddler than a baby. Spencer has grown an inch since November, and I think most of that has been in the last month. He's also lost a little weight, physically converting fully from toddler to child. Funny how they both did that at the same time, huh? She carries her baby dolls around, and wants them the moment she wakes up. She always wants to be near me and just plops down on my lap whenever she can. She constantly brings me books to read, almost always one of the 3 elmo books that we have. She's so beautiful that it's shocking to me, and I find myself wondering if she's really is that beautiful or it's just because I'm her mom that I see her as amazing. I mean no one thinks their kid is ugly, right? And I know that there are some not so cute kids out there, so I have to think that there is a decent degree of partiality. As I said though, her face has changed again lately and she really is radiant. And her language seems to be developing just fine lol.
Mike's doing well, I haven't mentioned him in awhile. He had a couple of bad days this week, but tonight he said "everyone's gotta have a bad day sometime". That's (in my humble opinion ;o) one of the healthiest things that he's said in years. And when Spencer wanted to learn how to play Diego for himself tonight, Mike got to teach him how to use the controller. I think it was probably his favorite fathering moment so far lol.
I'm okay. This weekend is the anniversary of our friends’ horrible tragedy last year. I'm going to a friend’s house for scrapbooking party on Sat night. I hope I can hold it together. Probably I will be able to, just push it out of my mind and forget about it. Sunday will be harder. We are going to the park that was dedicated to them since it's the closest thing we have to a gravesite. I haven't driven past the house in months, and it took me three days to recover last time I did. I don't think I'll be able to go there ever again. So the weekend will be harder than most. I'll do my best not to think about it too much though.