Had a quiet weekend! Got into the single digits, so was not much on venturing out, except to do some solo shopping.

Talked with the speech therapist today. After scoring the results from the test last week, she is fairly confident that we are actually dealing with apraxia. There could be some phonological disorder too, but hard to tell because some of the phonological stuff normally disappears when they turn 3. Apraxia is a long uphill road, basically retraining the mental processing. Jb did throw a frustration fit today at therapy for the first time. She was surprised she was just now seeing one.

My precious impulsive child. I thought we were making some headway when I saw him recently pick up a marker and turn to the wall. Then he said 'oh, we don't draw on the wall, but on paper'. Yeah! Then later that day I found where he had drawn a big green square on the couch with a marker - and yes he colored it in. It was done very nicely and had it been on paper, I would have been impressed. Then I found a lot of scribbling with a black pen all over the sheets of our bed. The other day he went to a friend's house to play (a friend we are just getting to know). We had been there about 2 minutes when the other little boy comes running in and asks "are we suppose to draw on walls?" His mom was puzzled, but I was not. Seems my precious child had found a really, really long, big ol' fat pencil and just had know if it would write. It did. Fortunately the other mom was very understanding and did not seem to mind - she was able to get all the marks off without taking off any paint. Disciplining for these things just seems to have no impact.

My 'wall' is now finished. Somewhere between when the boys turned 2 and 2 1/2 I have had two collages done of them. Just recently had JB's done and they are on the wall. (Despite the angle of the picture, yes, they are hanging straight). Just love how they have all turned out and how the pictures capture so much of their personality.


Here are the other two pictures I had taken while we were at it and they are now framed on the wall too. (It is hard to take pictures on a wall because of the flash reflection in the picture. All the more reason for me to figure out how to use the manual modes on my camera and turn off the flash!)