JB is rocking and rolling with speech. The therapist said last week that she quit writing tick marks for all of his imitations. It is coming together for him. He now can almost consistently put "up" together and the word "off". It might take several tries but he watches me and can often imitate the first sound of a word. We celebrate everything he gives us at this point. The therapist finds it interesting that he often, when trying to imitate a word, he will leave off the first sound and get the middle and end. This is just backwards to the norm. At least she is getting sounds, albeit not always right sounds, but he is starting to figure it out and realize it is more productive than his whining. This last session when he walked into her office he immediately started producing sounds and did not even mess with signs.

Jbird is so excited that flowers (dandelions) started growing in our yard. He will just cry one day when he realizes that they are weeds and people don't like them. We were driving in the car today with his friend John. They were both making crazy sounds and I heard Jbird say to John 'I will annoy JB, you annoy my mom'. At t-ball there are two other 3 year old boys who have siblings on B's team. Jbird and the other two have hit it off. I am so excited to find a few more friends for Jbird and I seem to hit it off with their parents.

B is finishing up the school year strong. He started strong then seemed to fault a little 2nd and 3rd quarter, but seems to be coming back around. The boys just love hanging out at the school and playing once the bell rings. Sure is hard with the warm weather to get them into the car. Fortunately, not much of a hurry - we are usually one of the last to leave. B is planning on end of the school party for some of his friends. We might do a sleep over, not sure yet, but I would love to have some kind of a tradition like that for the boys to kick off summer. The more the merrier is my motto around here!