1. Rainer has a new thing where, if he is talking to one of us and another person answers or responds he will say, for instance, "I am talking to Daddy, Mommy." It's polite, but boy does it put you in your place!
2. Yesterday I was feeling kind of down. No huge thing, just frustrated because G's issue with sensory processing has a way of rearing its head when you least expect it and it can be limiting for all of us. Yesterday, I was shocked when she had an issue with a music class we were going to check out. Lots of other little kids and music. Her faves! But the room was really echo-y. We couldn't even get her in the room for a minute. I could handle not going to a music class (although I like having things to do outside of the house and INSIDE the a/c during the summer), but Rainer was really bummed. And that made ME bummed. Too bummed, probably. After all, he ended up comforting ME later in the day when he could tell I was still feeling kind of sad. (Funnily, I was still feeling sad because he kept bringing up how we couldn't go to music class because G doesn't like the loud noise and how he wanted to go. It was really bothering me how much he was really comprehending how he was limited because of his sister's issue.) ANYWAY. He ended up trying to comfort ME. He brought me Big Guy (his teddy bear) and said, "Want it? It makes you happy," and kissed my hand. I order some child-size noise-cancelling headphones last night, but I don't have great hope that she will keep them on.
3. Today is Georgia's last day of camp. We are ALL bummed! She has really come so far in the past 6 weeks! Plus, she plain old LOVES it. She yells "Camp!" and "Camp is awesome!" on camp mornings and is always bringing up her aide's name and the other kids' names. Thankfully she'll get to see some of them (because I am friends with their moms) again, and she was also invited to one other boy's birthday party next week, so she'll see at least some of them there, but I wish she could do the whole thing for the rest of the summer and through the school year! There is an opportunity for her to continue on some level with the program through the school year, but it's $$$ and they don't take insurance (because it's a university and students and not a medical establishment). Not sure we can swing it, unfortunately. I am just happy she had this opportunity and I am hoping she can do it again next year. It goes up thru age 7. So she could potentially go three more years! They have a year-round preschool two days a week as well. But she will be in her public school five mornings a week and it doesn't work out.
4. One affect of G's speech is that she often only says the last parts of words if she is not REALLY thinking about it. (e.g. -za instead of Pizza). If you don't know her, and often if you are not in context it can be REALLY hard to figure out what she is saying. EVERYONE gets frustrated, but no one more than she. She also tends to string words together, speaks quietly at times and QUICKLY. She often asks for the DVD "Princess Potty Power." It sounds like "cesspower, cesspower!" Now, I mean, WHO WOULD KNOW WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT BESIDES US????? It scares me for her future with communication. We really need to work on these things. Language seems to be coming along, she is stringing along more phrases, (one new one I love currently is after she asks me to do something such as "Play bedroom?" and I say, "Sure!" she says, "Let's do it!"), but it all goes hand in hand, doesn't it? The WAY she says it and how it sounds are just as important as THAT she says it and that she understands things. It's incredibly interesting to me, this speech and language acquisition. I just wish it weren't my own daughter who needs such help.
5. G still sings a lot though. I think songs are where she is most comprehensible, actually.
6. Both the kids have a case of the sniffles. Rainer fell asleep for the first time that I can recall not in his bed or the car yesterday. In the midde of a puzzle, bum in the air, on the living room floor.
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