It’s September, and my son is back in school. Well, technically daycare, but it’s really more of a preschool, loaded with activities, songs, etc. I think the structure is good for him, and I also know that he gets things from his peers that he simply cannot get from us. Also (and it may be […]
My son graduated from speech therapy today. Well, not exactly. Today was his last session with Carol. And according to my wife, it was a perfect closure. He listened, talked, pointed, played, giggled with anticipation, all the things that the world’s neurotypical kids supposedly do. We’ll look around for a new speechie when we land […]
When three or more regular blog readers ask how Rubén is doing because there hasn’t been an update in a while, you know you’ve been getting lax. I’m going great guns on the Camtasia Studio book right now, and in order to meet my deadline, I’ve got to pound out approximately 2,000 words per day. […]
This is an update that’s been almost a week in the making, and now that I’m sitting at my little terminal, I find I actually have fairly little to say. In a word, our trip was AWESOME. Lynn and Dave made us feel completely at home. And Tay was, in a word, recovered. Not “approximately […]
We’ve got a doubter in our midst about the extent to which my son has progressed since starting intervention back in March. I refer not to a fictional black teenager from a 1980s fish-out-of-water sitcom, but rather to my very own spouse. She’s almost invariably less positive about Rubén’s progress than I, but she about […]
I’m still not sure what that little dip in his behavior/skin/gut actually was, but in the end, it seemed to agree with him. Rubén still has some sort of weird body rash, but his stools are back to being the right color & consistency, and his demeanor has bounced right back. In fact, I don’t […]
In moving some of Rubén’s therapies around this year, we decided to give free occupational therapy from the ISD a try. My son is still getting used to the OT, but I do have to say she brings over the coolest toys. With the colder weather coming on, this handy doorway swing has been a […]
Apparently my bride’s a closet shutterbug. She took a pic of Rubén sleeping an afternoon nap (for the first bloody time in ages!), snoring away and sticking his sweet little tushie up in the air. I felt a little pic-postey tonight and went to fetch said photo from my trusty memory card, only to find […]