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Post by waitwhat on Feb 25, 2019 7:01:01 GMT -6
After having an entire week off from school, I was really looking forward to B having school today and getting back into our routine. But nope, schools are cancelled due to this wind storm. ughhhhhh.
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Post by tgrimes on Feb 25, 2019 8:39:54 GMT -6
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Post by tgrimes on Feb 25, 2019 8:41:42 GMT -6
Last night my in laws took us to dinner and they bought me a case of wine. I told her not to buy me a present since they watched the kids all weekend and she bought us Aladdin tickets.
I'm not complaining though. I like wine.
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Post by waitwhat on Feb 25, 2019 8:44:25 GMT -6
Last night my in laws took us to dinner and they bought me a case of wine. I told her not to buy me a present since they watched the kids all weekend and she bought us Aladdin tickets. I'm not complaining though. I like wine. Can they adopt me?
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Post by danib on Feb 25, 2019 8:45:46 GMT -6
I went to the gym with DH this morning (on a 3 day trial pass before I get a membership). I'm really.liking it and hoping I can get set up with a membership soon. School's here are closing at noon due to a predicted storm. Hasn't started yet though so I'm hoping it's not as bad as they arw saying. I have a doctor appointment this afternoon I rwally don't want to have to miss.
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Post by tgrimes on Feb 25, 2019 8:48:22 GMT -6
Last night my in laws took us to dinner and they bought me a case of wine. I told her not to buy me a present since they watched the kids all weekend and she bought us Aladdin tickets. I'm not complaining though. I like wine. Can they adopt me? When N13 was trying to decide on a get together location, several people mentioned my in laws' house. Ha ha ha!
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Post by tgrimes on Feb 25, 2019 8:50:20 GMT -6
waitwhat My MIL also commented last night that we should just fly to NYC so M can see Frozen on Broadway, since they're still not coming to Houston.
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Post by goldenlove on Feb 25, 2019 9:32:11 GMT -6
The wind was crazy yesterday and this morning but luckily we didn't lose power. Nothing super exciting going on today. Just work as usual. It's a short week though! We're going to the waterpark on Thursday. So excited to get away for a couple days.
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Post by Cheshie6 on Feb 25, 2019 11:19:24 GMT -6
We had speech therapy this morning with an actual speech therapist. She’ll be coming once a month now because it’s more than just a speech delay. She said that L has the words in his head but he can’t seem to get the right sounds out. Like Di-da or gee-gah for dada. It’s worse when we ask him to do it. His brain has to plan ahead to say it correctly. It’s why we’ll hear him say a word and then never hear it again. She gave us a list of things to work on like shortening words because he can’t do that himself, like wa-wa instead of water, choo choo for train, and more signs. Making noises with his mouth in front of a mirror. DH is listening but he doesn’t like it! They can’t officially diagnose L until he has more words. He feels like they expect too much out of kids who are too young. He doesn’t see what L gets out of the specialist coming in the mornings.
I’ll edit with the correct diagnosis, we’re out getting DH last minute stuff before he heads back to work this afternoon!
Edit: she didn’t write the correct diagnosis down.
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Post by jubilantsquirrel on Feb 25, 2019 11:34:09 GMT -6
We had speech therapy this morning with an actual speech therapist. She’ll be coming once a month now because it’s more than just a speech delay. She said that L has the words in his head but he can’t seem to get the right sounds out. Like Di-da or gee-gah for dada. It’s worse when we ask him to do it. His brain has to plan ahead to say it correctly. It’s why we’ll hear him say a word and then never hear it again. She gave us a list of things to work on like shortening words because he can’t do that himself, like wa-wa instead of water, choo choo for train, and more signs. Making noises with his mouth in front of a mirror. DH is listening but he doesn’t like it! They can’t officially diagnose L until he has more words. He feels like they expect too much out of kids who are too young. He doesn’t see what L gets out of the specialist coming in the mornings. I’ll edit with the correct diagnosis, we’re out getting DH last minute stuff before he heads back to work this afternoon! MH was very resistant to DS1 getting speech help. He kept coming to me with antedotes from other people who had later talkers "and they're just fine now". Ok, cool. That means nothing to me. It took until he was almost 4 before he finally agreed that we needed to get him help for his speech. Just keep doing what you're doing. I'm thinking we're going to have to get DS2 evaluated for speech as well. He's getting more words, but it's really hard to understand him and he still doesn't really have any 2 word phrases (he really only says "look, ball"! or look - whatever). He also still doesn't say Mama or Dada or anything like that.
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Post by kleigh on Feb 25, 2019 12:19:42 GMT -6
waitwhat My MIL also commented last night that we should just fly to NYC so M can see Frozen on Broadway, since they're still not coming to Houston. I support this. I am a short commuter train ride away (1hr+-)
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Post by sophiegrace on Feb 25, 2019 12:33:54 GMT -6
waitwhat My MIL also commented last night that we should just fly to NYC so M can see Frozen on Broadway, since they're still not coming to Houston. We just booked a long weekend there over Easter. GO!!!!!! I’ll add you to our brunch reservation!
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Post by waitwhat on Feb 25, 2019 12:52:08 GMT -6
Since I've been using my laptop to go on HIH, I am now realizing what everyones avatars are because of how much bigger they are. On my phone, they are tiny blobs and I could never tell what they were exactly. Now, it's like a whole new world to me.
Mind. Blown.
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Post by sophiegrace on Feb 25, 2019 12:54:17 GMT -6
Cheshie6 (and everyone else who might have experience) so does a word have to be said with complete clarity for it to count? M says a lot, but a good chunk of things are pronounced clearly or fully. Good morning is Goo -Ning, and milk is -ilk, pants are tants. I could go on and on. Is it better that she says the stuff appropriately and just can’t get the right sounds out for now? Her pedi said it was fine at her 2 year appointment as long as her caregivers knew what she was talking about and you start worrying more around age 3 for clarity. Since then I have found out that a hearing test alone schedules out 10-12 months and I’m thinking maybe only serious cases get referred out to it in the hopes the lesser ones fix themselves. But if there’s something I should be working on I want to be working on it.
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Post by sophiegrace on Feb 25, 2019 12:55:09 GMT -6
Since I've been using my laptop to go on HIH, I am now realizing what everyones avatars are because of how much bigger they are. On my phone, they are tiny blobs and I could never tell what they were exactly. Now, it's like a whole new world to me. Mind. Blown. Is mine still a happy AF Sophie leaping through the snow?
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Post by waitwhat on Feb 25, 2019 12:56:30 GMT -6
Since I've been using my laptop to go on HIH, I am now realizing what everyones avatars are because of how much bigger they are. On my phone, they are tiny blobs and I could never tell what they were exactly. Now, it's like a whole new world to me. Mind. Blown. Is mine still a happy AF Sophie leaping through the snow? YES! and now I can see how cute she is in the pic!
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Post by danib on Feb 25, 2019 13:03:56 GMT -6
Cheshie6 (and everyone else who might have experience) so does a word have to be said with complete clarity for it to count? M says a lot, but a good chunk of things are pronounced clearly or fully. Good morning is Goo -Ning, and milk is -ilk, pants are tants. I could go on and on. Is it better that she says the stuff appropriately and just can’t get the right sounds out for now? Her pedi said it was fine at her 2 year appointment as long as her caregivers knew what she was talking about and you start worrying more around age 3 for clarity. Since then I have found out that a hearing test alone schedules out 10-12 months and I’m thinking maybe only serious cases get referred out to it in the hopes the lesser ones fix themselves. But if there’s something I should be working on I want to be working on it. So part of that (ie tants for pants) is that developmentally there are certain letter sounds they *aren't expected to* pronounce yet. As long as you can understand what they are saying it counts.
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Post by Cheshie6 on Feb 25, 2019 13:09:57 GMT -6
Cheshie6 (and everyone else who might have experience) so does a word have to be said with complete clarity for it to count? M says a lot, but a good chunk of things are pronounced clearly or fully. Good morning is Goo -Ning, and milk is -ilk, pants are tants. I could go on and on. Is it better that she says the stuff appropriately and just can’t get the right sounds out for now? Her pedi said it was fine at her 2 year appointment as long as her caregivers knew what she was talking about and you start worrying more around age 3 for clarity. Since then I have found out that a hearing test alone schedules out 10-12 months and I’m thinking maybe only serious cases get referred out to it in the hopes the lesser ones fix themselves. But if there’s something I should be working on I want to be working on it. Right now they are hoping for simple things like wa-wa for water. Approximations are okay for L. I’m not sure if that applies to everyone.
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Post by waitwhat on Feb 25, 2019 13:11:03 GMT -6
Cheshie6 (and everyone else who might have experience) so does a word have to be said with complete clarity for it to count? M says a lot, but a good chunk of things are pronounced clearly or fully. Good morning is Goo -Ning, and milk is -ilk, pants are tants. I could go on and on. Is it better that she says the stuff appropriately and just can’t get the right sounds out for now? Her pedi said it was fine at her 2 year appointment as long as her caregivers knew what she was talking about and you start worrying more around age 3 for clarity. Since then I have found out that a hearing test alone schedules out 10-12 months and I’m thinking maybe only serious cases get referred out to it in the hopes the lesser ones fix themselves. But if there’s something I should be working on I want to be working on it. I don’t believe so. Sort of goes along the lines of how animal sounds are counted as words. J still refers to a horse as a “neigh neigh” and I’ve asked B’s Speech therapist and she said that’s his word for horse so it counts. Just like tants are for pants.
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Post by kleigh on Feb 25, 2019 13:29:55 GMT -6
Cheshie6 (and everyone else who might have experience) so does a word have to be said with complete clarity for it to count? M says a lot, but a good chunk of things are pronounced clearly or fully. Good morning is Goo -Ning, and milk is -ilk, pants are tants. I could go on and on. Is it better that she says the stuff appropriately and just can’t get the right sounds out for now? Her pedi said it was fine at her 2 year appointment as long as her caregivers knew what she was talking about and you start worrying more around age 3 for clarity. Since then I have found out that a hearing test alone schedules out 10-12 months and I’m thinking maybe only serious cases get referred out to it in the hopes the lesser ones fix themselves. But if there’s something I should be working on I want to be working on it. At ABs hearing eval I was told that we would be “their translators” for quite a while but as long as it made sense or could be approximated to a word that it counted as a word.
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Post by sophiegrace on Feb 25, 2019 13:31:36 GMT -6
Ok! Thank you everyone. I took a screenshot of that chart danib, it’s extremely helpful for me. I thought she was doing so much better and then started questioning myself. I’m really good at worrying so was making a big effort not to, but then was worrying about not worrying. I can’t wait to drink again.
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Post by kleigh on Feb 25, 2019 13:33:23 GMT -6
Hi, I just came home bc we have some drama here today.
It started with AV being awake from 11:30pm to 4:00am this morning (straight), then we went downstairs to find I had left the fridge ajar all night so all the food in there went to shit (I JUST grocery shppped <24 hrs ago). Top it off, SIL thinks she has strep and was here with MIL Friday night while we went to dinner.. MIL didn’t come today as a precaution and MH stayed home with the kids.
But we need to figure out if the fridge is working. He seems the think the motor died from running all night while trying to maintain a cool temp.. i don’t buy it? The freezer seems to be fine. Not sure there’s two motors. I think more likely he keeps opening the door and it can’t catch up.
Also, crazy wind happening here and it’s freaking me out.
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Post by waitwhat on Feb 25, 2019 13:41:41 GMT -6
+1 to the wind. its amazing to me how my kids are sleeping through it at the moment. the wind is rattling the windows and shaking the house!
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Post by waitwhat on Feb 25, 2019 13:42:34 GMT -6
Hi, I just came home bc we have some drama here today. It started with AV being awake from 11:30pm to 4:00am this morning (straight), then we went downstairs to find I had left the fridge ajar all night so all the food in there went to shit (I JUST grocery shppped <24 hrs ago). Top it off, SIL thinks she has strep and was here with MIL Friday night while we went to dinner.. MIL didn’t come today as a precaution and MH stayed home with the kids. But we need to figure out if the fridge is working. He seems the think the motor died from running all night while trying to maintain a cool temp.. i don’t buy it? The freezer seems to be fine. Not sure there’s two motors. I think more likely he keeps opening the door and it can’t catch up. Also, crazy wind happening here and it’s freaking me out. 11:30-4am??????? WTF was she doing?!
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Post by kleigh on Feb 25, 2019 13:57:24 GMT -6
Hi, I just came home bc we have some drama here today. It started with AV being awake from 11:30pm to 4:00am this morning (straight), then we went downstairs to find I had left the fridge ajar all night so all the food in there went to shit (I JUST grocery shppped <24 hrs ago). Top it off, SIL thinks she has strep and was here with MIL Friday night while we went to dinner.. MIL didn’t come today as a precaution and MH stayed home with the kids. But we need to figure out if the fridge is working. He seems the think the motor died from running all night while trying to maintain a cool temp.. i don’t buy it? The freezer seems to be fine. Not sure there’s two motors. I think more likely he keeps opening the door and it can’t catch up. Also, crazy wind happening here and it’s freaking me out. 11:30-4am??????? WTF was she doing?! Oh you know, shootin’ the shit... I was not a happy person. AV are you ok? Yes Do your teeth hurt? No Does your belly hurt? No Does our head hurt? No Are you sad ? No Are you hungry? (Because she refused to eat any dinner). No Are you thirsty ? No Ok then let’s go back to sleep. Ok mommy. Lays her head down. I go to leave and she sits back up... “Elsa dvdjwoskdbfbgksoa glove andndhfksn tomorrow abdbfjsnznd Elsa dress fbxjdkskd” Rinse and repeat. She was just acting so freaking weird all night. Great mood, but would not eat one bite of dinner. I even offered her jello out of desperation thinking maybe her belly felt off (FTR a i hate jello, hate it.. the consistency is so YUK, but MIL loves). Then she asked to go upstairs to bed at 7:00 (despite a 2hr nap from 2-4), but then once in bed took 1hr 15min to go to sleep, kept talking, but not really at me, and I couldn’t understand what she was saying (whereas I normally can).
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Post by sophiegrace on Feb 25, 2019 14:01:39 GMT -6
Hi, I just came home bc we have some drama here today. It started with AV being awake from 11:30pm to 4:00am this morning (straight), then we went downstairs to find I had left the fridge ajar all night so all the food in there went to shit (I JUST grocery shppped <24 hrs ago). Top it off, SIL thinks she has strep and was here with MIL Friday night while we went to dinner.. MIL didn’t come today as a precaution and MH stayed home with the kids. But we need to figure out if the fridge is working. He seems the think the motor died from running all night while trying to maintain a cool temp.. i don’t buy it? The freezer seems to be fine. Not sure there’s two motors. I think more likely he keeps opening the door and it can’t catch up. Also, crazy wind happening here and it’s freaking me out. Omg fucccccckkk that wake up. Miss AV, why??? Our fridge starts dinging if it’s open too long. I despised it at first, but it’s come in handy so many times and now I’m thankful. That same situation would have happened to be countless times if it wasn’t obnoxious AF. Not sure why. Maybe our last fridge would seal itself better on its own? Who knows. I hope it just needs to catch up with itself and you don’t need a repair/new one.
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Post by goldenlove on Feb 25, 2019 14:14:44 GMT -6
Damn kleigh. I'm sorry she was up so long.
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Post by kleigh on Feb 25, 2019 14:16:46 GMT -6
Damn kleigh. I'm sorry she was up so long. And because I was watching the oscars of course this happened right as I was about to go to sleep. So I basically slept 4-6:30 this morning.
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Post by tjanca22 on Feb 25, 2019 14:40:03 GMT -6
Sorry for the bad night kleigh, that sounds miserable. I headed over to the ASD thread on GD and got a few pages in. I need to back away. I honestly have no reason to doubt either child’s progress, but for the past hour I’ve been trying to think if E can make each sound and how he uses me/you/I. I’m going to take a few more deep breaths and stop worrying. In other news, it’s windy here too, and cold. I’m sick of winter, make it be over. Normal Monday over here, just the gym tonight, then home for bedtimes.
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Post by jubilantsquirrel on Feb 25, 2019 15:08:39 GMT -6
Damn kleigh. I'm sorry for the rough night!
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