Brandon – had an evaluation with a speech therapist today. Very interesting what he knows and what he doesn’t. The sounds he doesn’t pronounce correctly (of which there were many)??? All sounds that kids master by the age of EIGHT. Yep, you read correctly… they aren’t going to worry about him until he’s EIGHT. She said that the inconsistencies in the sounds he’s making is a good sign… he’s learning. The only sound she’s mildly interested in is the ING sound, which kids master at age 5-6. She’s going to find some pictures and send them to me, to help work with him. She’s also going to send the results to the speech path at Seaview.Christian – Here’s a good one. Last night I asked Brandon to clean up the fort he made upstairs. When he said he was done, I sent Christian up to see how he did. I asked, “Is Daddy going to think it’s cleaned up?” Christian’s response? “I don’t know. He thinks different than I do.”

Christian – One more conversation with Christian… “Mommy, you know that CD you have?” I have lots of CDs, I’m thinking. “The one with the guy singing all those songs?” Didn’t narrow it down much. “The one where he sings in different languages?” Ah ha! My Josh Groban CD. “Yes, Christian, what about it?” “Could I take it to school on my birthday so we can listen to it while we do my birthday stuff? Ms Lawrence said it’s ok.” LOL I can’t believe he wants to listen to my Josh Groban CD during his school bday celebration 🙂

Christian – I guess I should do an ADHD update. He’s on a caffeine trial. The first two weeks it didn’t seem to do much, so after consulting with his doctor, we upped the amount on Tuesday. But on Wednesday he forgot to take two doses in a row. After school he had the worst headache I’ve ever seen. Sent us back to the doctor’s office where they declared he’s fine but it was a caffeine withdrawal headache. Scary, but it seems to be helping him at school, so we’re not giving up yet.

Alyson just repeats whatever anyone else says 🙂 Her story of the day is… her new favorite show is the Wonder Pets. Silly little show, but they do a lot of singing. She has learned TEAMWORK from this silly little show. The animals work together to do things, and they sing, “What’s gonna work? TEAMWORK!” over and over. So Alyson now joins in (particularly if we’re doing laundry), starts helping, and sings teamwork 🙂 She’s got all of us doing it.