James at 2 days old

Garrett at 2 days old.

I make some incredibly cute babies. Everyone has something they excel at. For some people it's Art. Some, it's math. Others, like myself, it's procreating and making adorable, fun, and happy children.

Not much to report today. Garrett is feeling much better, James was still under the weather. Fell asleep in my bed for a short nap and woke up with a raging fever again. He did put two "old" words together today, "No More". He said it fairly easily too, and was able to replicate it again and again. One of the hardest thing for him is to put multiple words together. He has "I do" and "Go ____" (Fill in with familar to him word) but thats about it. Hopefully the more confident he gets with his words, the easier it will come to him.

Garrett was into everything today! He loves the cat food, litter box, toliet, and anything else he shouldn't touch. It was easier to childproof with just one, now I have a big brother coming behind me and undoing all this child proofing I am doing.

So I don't forget, Garrett has also offically learned to wave Bye bye, it's adorable.

I guess I had more to say than I thought.

Attempt # Too many

I've attempted blogs, diarys, flickers, blah blah blah's, so many times before. I never had a lot to say. I think I finally have enough to say to keep this going. We'll give it a shot!

I am Shelley - Mom to James and Garrett. James, the main subject of this blog, is 3 years old (February 2005) and is severely verbally apraxic. He is beautiful, smart, funny and witty - just with less words. Garrett is barreling towards 1 year old (May 2007) and about as happy of a baby that you will ever see.

I hope to share our story and get some sort of awareness out there about speech and language disorders, specifically apraxia. I fully admit to giving weird looks to children who didn't speak or didn't speak as clearly, until I was served up a big ol' slice of humble pie and given the gift of James. We are learning together. He's learning to speak and I am learning about patience, tolerance and advocacy.

I hope to use this blog to document his progress and give any tips that I pick up along the way for the Parents of Newly diagnosed children.