Hi all. Just wanted to post an update. Last week was hell, sleep wise, so I've been a bit too scrambled to sit down and write. This weekend went much better-well, to be honest the hubby and I probably got a lot less sleep than usual, but that was due to some unrelated stress-Rocket was back to being asleep by 11. ; )
Still puttering along at speech. He had a ton of makeups though from the summer of the flake, so he's been able to go twice a week fairly often. Making more sound productions. No new words yet, though I did almost get him to say ball this weekend!! He was trying. : ) He was doing the "ba" sound when prompted too, well until he got the giggles over it. *Swoon* He's such a funny boy.
We go to our first FEAT (http://www.feat.org/) event on Wednesday. Really looking forward to it. Someone from FEAT called today, and they're even going to have a packet of into and a few books of my request from a list of 5 waiting for us when we get there! How nice is that? They seem like they will be a great ally and resource for us.
We have been able to encourage a lot more eye contact and conversation with Rocket lately. It's all still gibberish, but he is definitely telling us something, lol! Now that we know what we're dealing with, that he's not just extremely independent, we know how important it is to encourage those things. It's early on, but so far, it's much improved over the last month!
One of the most important lessons I think we are learning right now, is who in our friends and family are going to stand by our side and walk through this journey with us, and who is going to choose one of the hardest times in our lives to pile more stress and worry on top of us, if not bail out all together. Thank you to those of you who are along for the journey!
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