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Aggressive Spring 2 Jun 2011 | 01:32 am
This time of year is always so crazy because there is so much going on with the kids schedule. Every extracurricular thing wraps up. The school crams in a bunch of field trips. Kevin takes off for a w...
Symbolic Play 28 Apr 2011 | 06:16 am
M's symbolic play is really picking up. She loves her dollhouse with the furniture. Yesterday at speech M brought some little people figures with her and her therapist brought out a chair. M put them...
All of 5 minutes 19 Apr 2011 | 06:24 am
I've left myself only 5 minutes today to blog, so quickly... M was playing with K's dollhouse with all it's pieces and parts... we are seeing symbolic play! M is beginning to act shy when she is aro...
What IS it? Part 2 12 Apr 2011 | 06:11 am
I'm practically jumping out of my skin! This morning M's ABA case director came to the house to observe some of M's difficult behaviors. M qualified for continuing help through our regional center fo...
Wednesday 31 Mar 2011 | 06:01 am
After hearing from the speech therapist that she thinks that M definitely has speech apraxia I did some poking around to see what more I can do to help with it. From the little bit of reading I did it...
Speech Apraxia 24 Mar 2011 | 05:18 am
In February I started taking M to speech therapy twice a week for an hour at a time. She can't sit still so she has to sit in a little high-chair type contraption so that the speech therapist can keep...
A Little More on Attachment 17 Mar 2011 | 05:07 am
I feel like I had to cut the previous post short due to time, but at least these coffee shop posts are coming out. Things that have helped with attachment with M: The "Beyond Consequences" book and ...
Attachment - A long process 15 Mar 2011 | 05:00 am
It seems like with M we have passed through many phases of attachment. When she first came home we went through a honeymoon period where we were very happy together, and happy to get to know each othe...
What IS it? 8 Mar 2011 | 07:59 am
This weekend we had dinner over at our friends' house. Their son is a year older than C and K and was also adopted from Russia when he was about a year old. Now that the years have passed, the differe...
Dark Days Behind 3 Mar 2011 | 07:55 am
I just reread the past two posts and a few things come to mind. First, I'm happy that I it hasn't been a whole year since my last post. Second, my writing has suffered terribly over the past 10 month ...
