Thanksgiving 2016

Thanksgiving! We are so greatful for everything we have. We are thankful for our three beautiful children, the house we call our home, our family and wonderful friends.

Last Thanksgiving, we were pulling out our hair and trying to comfort a fussy baby who was 5 months old.This year was such a beautiful day, we relaxed and enjoyed watching our baby girl eat stuffing, turkey, mashed potatoes and the most delicious baked bananas. She devoured everything! We are so thankful and blessed to have 3 amazing children (yet sometime crazy) in our lives and couldn't be more grateful. Today we watched our children play with their cousins, and even get into trouble. Juleyana discovered the filling in the fake plant pot (trouble). Oh ya this girl is on the move! On this Thanksgiving Day, we are grateful for our beautiful family, the family members that we didn't get to see, and our dear friends.

Speech Therapy Day 1

What a Monday; we made it through three therapy sessions. Yesterday Juleyana had her first speech therapy session with the SLP. They worked through play. This therapy session was more getting to know Jules (16 months old) and getting her comfortable with her new therapist.  At this point Jules is making sounds such as "mmmm" "bahbah" and "dah." She is not yet labeling such as mama or dada. We have been working at home with labeling and pretend play, all of which are suggested for speech development. Speech development usually develops at about the time a child begins to walk. Since Jules has been crawling we have seen a big increase in her babbling. We also will begin working on signing words such as "more" "milk" "eat" and "all done." This is just the beginning and we can't wait to see how she progresses in the next 6 months.