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
Ashlynn’s progress continues to grow by leaps and bounds. So many times I catch myself smiling and my eyes well up with tears to see her knock down all of her obstacles. Last month she learned to jump for the first time at 3 1/2. At the beginning of the year, it broke my heart to watch her try on a classroom trampoline. On their turn, all the other kids
Ashlynn is literally making leaps and bounds in her speech. Sometimes, I feel like we are actually having a mini conversation. I think the greatest aspect is her being able to tell me where she’s hurting, or even tell me what she wants to eat. She tries to repeat everything now, and even has some sponteaneous four word utterances! The past week, her new thing was “too” as in, “Ashlynn
It’s no secret that my daughter has a short attention span. I always worry of course since I’m her mom that it might be more serious than just the average toddler one minute attention span; however, today her school SLP expressed some concern as well. She asked me to come in next Wednesday to discuss possible strategies for keeping her on task in a group setting. She said that taking
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