Spring Breaks

The kids have different spring breaks this year. Which is kinda nice that I get to spend a little time with each of them alone. For Grant's we mostly played at home, especially soccer in the house which is one of his favorite things to do right now. Now it's Reagan's week (really just two days Tuesday and Thursday). Today she just wanted to come home and watch TV. TV that she gets to choose and that is not interrupted by her brother. :-) Being a first child I completely understand this, even though I wanted to do something else. I tried to get her to go to the science center and was told "that doesn't seem like much fun mommy." She had her heart set on this even though it's such a beautiful day. We did agree that after we pick Grant up from school at 2pm that we would go to the park for a bit. On Thursday I am keeping her friend Julia so that we can all have a girls day. I'm taking them to lunch at restaurant that almost like a tea party, painting nails, and going to feed the ducks. Reagan is so excited for this.

The weather has been so nice lately and the kids are enjoying the time outside. They were playing on the back porch while I was fixing dinner and I heard them giggling. This is what I found when I went out there.

He was pretending to sleep on her. Sometimes they can be so cute! Right now Reagan is doing things and getting Grant to copy her. And he's actually been doing it. Here they are acting like spiders.

On a good note Grant was evaluated at Vanderbilt for speech today. She also did the short eval for autism and said no. Having only seen him once she wondered a bit about Auditory Processing disorder. And his speech therapist says he has apraxia. His speech therapist going to work with him more on his listening and eye contact (and OT will also). Then if it still seems like a problem he will go for a processing evaluation. It looks like it is a speech problem either on the front end or back end and the treatment is about the same. He's had an EXPLOSION of language this last week, adding about 20 words to his original 10. No temper tantrums since he has started using more words last week... The evaluator today was really impressed with what he knew (could point to) even though he hardly said anything to her except ball!! :-)  We are enjoying hearing his little voice.