It's been a long time

For any of you out there reading this, I'm sorry that I haven't written in ages!  It can be difficult to keep up with life itself at times, much less trying to keep up with a blog!  However, I do have a little time to give some updates on how things are around here.

Sarah's 5 years old now and Kevin will be turning three this week.  It's amazing how time flies.  Both kids are progressing in various ways.  Overall, Sarah is becoming a little calmer and more well behaved.  Of course, I did say overall.  We still have some pretty wild times, such as this afternoon.  However, slowly but surely, I see our hard work paying off.  Sarah loves singing and can play some simple rhythms and notes on the violin.  She loves crafts, such as beading and plastic canvas.

Kevin is making good strides, too.  He's learning how to dress himself.  Of course, half of the time the clothes are on backwards or completely don't match, but he's starting to get the hang of it!   He also enjoys coloring and simple crafts.  Kevin's a real softie and tries hard to please us.

Since this blog is primarily about Kevin's speech, I will move on to that subject.  We've been in speech for 10 months now.  We still have a long ways to go, but he has made lots of progress.  When you consider that 10 months ago, the only sounds he made were "Bah" and "Dah," he's really doing well.  He often puts 3 words together, will use words to try to express himself, instead of just gestures, can pronounce all 5 vowels clearly, interacts with people using the words "Hi" and "Bye," will ask for toys or food by name, etc.  I know that many things that he says that I can understand would not be understood by others, but we're getting there.

We encourage him throughout the day to express himself.  We say words slowly and clearly for him, and try to get him to repeat.  I have to admit that we don't sit down and do his specific homework from speech therapy as much as we should.  I'm sure that would help him even more.  I feel, though, that we're moving along at a steady pace.

On a different note, we felt pity for our cat KC who was outside in the cold and wet.  So, once again, she is an inside cat.  She used to be a inside cat years ago, but was kicked outside when I was pregnant with Sarah.  This is kind of on a trial basis right now, but it's going well so far.  She's an older cat now, so she spends most of her day sleeping or pretending to sleep.  We'll see how it goes.