I Love You Too

Jake has really come along way with his speech. A year ago I looked forward to just the simple things in life .... like him telling me about his bad dream he had or asking for a cup of milk or (SNIFF) telling me he loved me. Well a year later he can do all these things. He actually tells me and Matt "I love you too" at least 10 times a day. It is so sweet and we simply cant get him to leave out the "too" part. I guess he is making it up for when he couldn't tell me he loved me:)

For the life of us we can't get him to say open this he says "op this."
His speech is rubbing off on Aiden (not a good thing).
He absolutely loves school and riding on the bus.
Aiden recently smashed Jakes middle finger in the door causing it to turn black and he proudly flips off everyone who asks him about it.

It was that time of year to get Aidens hearing tested again. Turns out that his right ear isn't working at all but his other ear is working perfectly. He might have a hard time telling where sounds are coming from and his ear may get fatigued when he goes to school. A hearing aid won't help him and a cochlear implant is not an option.

Aiden speech development has been slower than I hoped it would be at this point. I know he didn't have apraxia which is what Jake has but I wanted to get him tested. Turns out just he is behind. His problem isn't like Jake which was absence of speech. Aiden talks a ton but he is incredibly hard to understand. He talks in complete sentences and sometimes I can't even pick out one word that he said. But if I ask him to say a word he can almost say it, which Jake could never do. I have also noticed that he is picking up on the things that Jake is saying. So Aiden has been enrolled in a program once a week that I take him to help him with his sounds. He seems to like it and makes his teachers laugh almost the entire time.