Back into the light

Remember how I talked about the ups and downs?  How about Will doing his strange kid impersonation? Well we now are out of the strange kid stage again and have gotten some more language out of this LT. Today we has some nice progress.  We had to go and sign tax papers today so we all piled in the car and headed out to the accountant.  After doing our business we headed over to the nursery to look at some trees we want to add to the house etc.  On the way there we hear from the back seat "Where are we going?".  My husband and I were doing the "whaaaa whaaa, did he just ask what I think he asked?  It was the first time he asked a question like that.  Most of the time Will only asks questions to what he already knows the answers too.  He has asked where someone is and where his toys are, but not where are we going, so we were happy (although I did cry in the car- sue me!)

Later in the day we had a nice back and forth discussion that went like this.  (Will) McQueen and Ramone. . .(me) what? ... (Will) I want McQueen and Ramone. . .(me) where are they?. . .(Will) There are upstairs. . .(Will again) Mommy go get McQueen and Ramone. 

It was nice to have a back and forth interaction and for this I was a very happy mommy today.  Here's to more of these days in the future!

To be or not to be

Just another day in the life of.  Got a call from the local Elementary school asking if we were planning on enrolling Will in Kindergarten next year.  Gave a confident nope and that was the end of that.  I've found infinite peace with this decision.  Will will go to school, just preschool again.  Its not like the kids needs it for academics anyway!  Today I showed him a set of paints and I  asked him "what is this?" . .his response "ovals" ( I guess he knows his shapes).

On another note we are weeks away from trying in earnest potty training. I know I know "Will is almost 4.5 and he isn't trained?" is running through your head, but I'm telling you between the verbal delay and his lack of fine motor skills I didn't see the pressure to get him out of pull ups. . . .until now.  When your child can pee in his diaper take it off, toss it out and put another on without your help, well its time to get on the potty.  Unfortunately I still don't think this is going to go well.  We are going with the tossing the diapers out and going bare butt method.   Cross your fingers for me and say a prayer because in 3 weeks there will be no going back, ack!

The ups and downs of being an LT parent

Sorry it has been SOOOOOOOO long since my last post.  Unfortunately my lovely son accidentally dropped my laptop and its is still stuck in computer purgatory as some unknown part is on backorder until ??????  My husband took pity on me and bought me a new laptop for my birthday.  When the old computer finally comes home it is going to Will.

So the ups and downs of being an LT parent.  If I had been available to blog three weeks ago it would have been a BIG up.  We had just gotten back from a trip to Nashville TN to see the first doctor to diagnose him with Mixed Expressive Receptive Language Disorder.  Will did amazing on the flights out and the layovers.  Again we got complements on how well and quiet he is!  (Usually an old couple - who knew?)  The doctors said Will was coming along nicely since they saw him a year ago.  We haven't gotten the final report, but we left feeling really good about Will's future.  

We had been home for two days and went to take Will to his Kindergarden interview at the local private school.  ( My husband is a graduate).  Will did WONDERFUL!  We had informed and given the teacher all of the doctors reports and were very forthcoming with his language disorder.  The testing portion of the interview was a breeze for Will and when we were done he even picked up his toys.  We left with the teacher saying she thought it would work out and being very positive on having Will in her classroom.  She only said she would have the speech path look over the reports we gave her and get back to us.  BIG up for this LT.

The next thing we know we are getting a call from the University Hospital that our wait on their list (over 7 months!) was over and we could bring Will in the next day for a follow up appointment.   Will again did soooooo well and the doctor was very happy with his progress.  We left that appointment with the doctor saying he was more convinced then ever that Will was NOT ASD (yeah!!!) and that his language disorder was what was holding him back socially.

So yeah we were on a bunch of UP UP UP on this journey until, da, da, dummmmm we got the dreaded call from the private school telling us they didn't want Will in there school.  Actually they said they couldn't provide the services for him, which is a load of crap since the public schools are required to provide services to ANY child in private school or home-schooled.  So they were really saying they just didn't want Will.  Needless to say I barely got off the phone before the tears started.  I can't tell you how hard it is to have your flesh and blood rejected.  I know its only freaking (yea I made the decision not to swear on the blog, but in "real" life I was talking like a sailor!) Kindergarden, but its soooo heartbreaking to have your son denied anything in life.

On top of all of this Will has now chosen to do his "weirdo kid" impression again.  His scripting has picked up and his behavior is definitely right of center.  It makes you second guess all the positive feedback we've gotten this month and I HATE that.  We go through this "spells" every few months and then come out the other end with more speech, but until the end is here is can be tough one the heart of this mom.

Soo here is to all the UPs we've had this month and a big fuck you (sorry I had to do it) to all the people who can't see the wonderful potential in our beautiful LT and gave us the DOWNs of the month.