Wow

It's been so long since i have been posting. With summer full force were not spending too much indoors.

I will post some pictures later today/night when i get a chance to.

Everything Must Come to an End

Five years ago and one month I gave birth to a very beautiful little boy, he came into the world screaming at 8.4 lbs, black hair, 21 in long at 4:33pm May 3rd. As soon as he was born, they cleaned him up, checked him over, and then i held in my arms for the first time. Right away I placed him on my breast to nurse for the first time. It was a lot harder then I anticipated. It was painful, most of the time he was too tired. Here we are 5 yrs later and it has now come to an end, as of about a week ago to be exact. We decided that we were going to let him self wean right from the beginning, and that's how it unfolded. I had GREAT support from Don and family members (well most). I thought i would be sad about the end but i am not in the least bit. It just feels right. Another chapter closed. I feel at peace with it! Below are a few of my favorite pics. I love you Andrew.

Speech Evaluation

Andrew had his speech evaluation last week. We were there for 2 hrs while the speech therapist had him do a few things while observing his speech. First she had him and i play with some animals and dinosaurs on the floor (about 10mins). Then she had him color pictures while her and i talked and while she wrote down the history of his stuttering. Now this part is hard to explain so I'm going to make a small diagram in hopes it makes it easier. I made it smaller then what she had. The diagram below is a graft representing the syllables in his speech, each box with the dash represents normal talking, the diagonal ones are when he stuttered, and then she tallied each line and gave a percentage mark on how often he stuttered. She said that when we were playing together he stuttered 5%. Then she got him to make up a story from the pictures from a picture book. She said he stuttered about 8% then. She gave us some exercises to do at home, like talking to him slower in 5 min increments, something like Mr Rogers from Mr Rogers neighborhood. Let him be aware of bumpy talk and smooth talk. She wants to see him once a week for how long i don't know. She is unsure if he will have this for the rest of his life or if it will go away in time.

Timelessness

I'm Bursting

With love in my heart for Andrew. I know this may sound cheesy but oh well, that's who i am. I just feel sooooooooooooooooooo much of it, i feel it exploding out of every pore on my body and if it were a color i would be the brightest sun in the galaxy..

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Just don't have a title for this one. Not much has been happening on the home front. The weather has been really crappy, cold or raining.

Andrew has some sort of virus, just the runs so going outside anywhere hasn't been an option if you know what i mean. I'm starting to wonder if it's something more then a virus though. Because he's had it for about 2 weeks now i'm beginning to suspect it's food related. An online friend of mine (thanks Cat) suggested to me that he could have a gluten intolerance. He has an appointment on Monday at St Micheal's Hospital at 10am if he still has it, we'll discuss it with the Dr there then and see what they think.

Tomorrow he goes for his speech evaluation for his on and off again stuttering problem.

Sooo that's about it, exciting eh?

Rainbows

This was taken out of our livingroom window after it poured out. It's was HUGE and much nicer looking then these pictures depict.

(By the way Tammy if you end up looking at these pictures, look at all the trees! Doesn't look like a concrete jungle to me. Hence why Toronto has been nick named the forest city.)





This one is a shadow of my building, ours is the one on the left :)