Two HUGE developments with Ashlynn popped out over the weekend! We celebrated my youngest’s 1st Birthday on Sunday. Six months ago, my daughter had to really focus on including all the sounds in syllables, so when it was my husband’s birthday, she could day “Happy Day” with cueing. Well, after the celebration ended and everyone had gone home, she went over to her brother and clear as day said “Happy
It’s no secret that my dad is the pushover. Don’t get me wrong, he could lay down the law when he had to; but when it came to playing my dad is the person to sweet talk. Ever since Ashlynn was a little baby, my dad would play ball with her. It started out almost as a game of fetch, but each time she gets better and better. After Jace
I’m so frustrated today! To make it worse, I’m frustrated with myself for being frustrated. I went to put Ashlynn on abcmouse.com, and early learning site for kids as young as two. Since she’s 3.7, I figured this should be great. Wrong. Turns out using a mouse requires a high degree of motor planning and coordination. God. It sucks. She can’t even do things two year olds can do. I
After my IEP experience, I was excited but also skeptical pending the first day of school. Excited and hopeful she would finally get the speech and language enrichment she so desperately needs, and skeptical because it didn’t seem like her teacher or SLP would be the ones able to do so. I dropped off her private speech report to the teacher and SLP so they could at least see her progress documented
Today was such a great day! I have to write it down so I remember things Ashlynn is doing so later on, I appreciate how far she has come. When I’m with her everyday, I tend to get focused on how much she is behind instead of celebrating the new things she does. I really need to focus and celebrate all the successes! Today when she woke up from her