This last week has been so wonderful! We were able to take Peng Peng's "no no's" off on Wednesday of last week. He also graduated to soft foods. This meant better sleep and eating, which meant happier everyone! One more week until I go back to work!
Peng Peng had fun playing in the snow this week. We were supposed to get over a foot of snow, but ended up with about two inches. He is not a fan of the cold, but he is loving his first pair of light up shoes and wears them around the house all the time. Since he doesn't like cold, I brought the snow to him. He played for about an hour just poking and scooping out snow in a roaster.
We have been busy figuring out a direction for Peng Peng's speech development. Yesterday we went to the U of M's craniofacial department. He passed the hearing test but did have slightly lower than normal numbers (.9 and .7) so they said he might have partial hearing loss and to check back in six months. The ENT said his ears looked good (whoohoo) and we need to follow up every six months as well. The Speech Pathologists did an informal assessment and are writing up paperwork to document a medical need for speech therapy. We are beyond fortunate - my insurance allows therapy as long as he is making progress and has a medical necessity. Some people don't get any coverage and most are limited in the number of service visits. Tomorrow we have Lakeville schools coming to do their formal assessments and next week he has his first visit to Theraplay in New Prague for his first session.
Poor AJ was pretty sick this week and as a result missed two days of school. Abby passed Beginner 1 for gymnastics and was a rock star on the floor last night. They are both doing a wonderful job at school and have joined me in the basement for "workout time" almost daily. Time to prepare for getting out of these yoga pants and back into actual clothes :)
Our church launch has been going really well. We have not grown a quickly as we have hoped, but the people in our group are awesome and it has been a great experience. I look forward to what God has in store for us.
Current Signs (bold new): all done, apple, baby, ball, banana, bath, bear, bike, bird, blanket, book, brush teeth, bug candy, car, cat, cereal, clean up, coat, cold, color, come on, cookie, cow, cracker, dad, diaper, dog, down, drink, eat, egg, fish, flower, go, grandma, hat, help, horse, hot, hot dog, I love you, jump, laundry, milk, mine, mama, more, monkey, music, pig, play, popcorn, potty, shoes, sit, sleep, snow, socks, slide, swing, thank you, time out, wait, walk, wash hands, water, up
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