Our Family

Decorating the Tree

We decorated the tree on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. My daughter is at that age that she can help. My son not so much help so there aren't any of him decorating the tree. And then there were tears because we would take ornaments away so he wouldn't break them. We tried with his own ornament and he pulled the hanger out. Not enough time to take a picture.

Day after Thanksgiving

So my husband had to work this day. But since the weather was good and I felt brave, the kids and I joined my husband's Grandma and family for a day after Thanksgiving dinner. She made a delicious dinner. A couple hours before heading to Grandmas though I drove to visit my sister since I was close to her house.

Grandma is amazing with her cakes. It's a Turkey!

My daughter and her cousin waiting for a piece of the Turkey Cake

My daughters other cousin enjoying some Turkey cake as well.

My son found his favorite place at Great Grandmas. He found these trucks and would line them up and drive them and I once tried to move them and play trucks to. He did not like me messing up his trucks.

Below are from my visit with my sister. She got some chocolate chips and became my sons best friend for the moment.

I love this picture! He is totally looking at my sister like she must be the coolest person EVER.

And well this is so sweet.

Thanksgiving 2010

Playing with Grandma.

Me and my son

The boys and a little girl watching some football and talking about phones.

Dress up is Fun

I made 2 Pumpkin Pies and 1 Apple pie. I had a little fun cutting out feet for the top of the pie.

Playing in some Thanksgiving Snow

Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

Mom take a Picture of Me Sitting on the Pumpkin!

Turkey Talking Time

So I haven't done much about her Talking Time Classes. Once a week we go for an hour to work on my daughter's speech. At it we start by doing a hello song, chant, or poem. Then they introduce a sound and theme that they are focusing the games on. Then we read a story that also emphasizes that sound and theme. Next each kid gets their folder and then they divide up into a different station where mom and kid focus on the individual sound that the therapists would like you to focus on with your child. every 10 minutes we move to the next station which includes 2 stations with personal 1 on 1 time with the 2 therapists. In the last couple of months my daughter has made leaps and bounds in her speech. It isn't perfect yet, but it is so nice to have people look at her and know some of what she is saying than to always look to me to translate. Because although I understood a bit more of what she said it broke my heart every time I didn't. After all a mother is supposed to understand her kid and I wasn't. Most of the time the only way I understood her was by her ability to express herself through actions and sound effects. She is so smart. So here are some pictures of a Talking Time day. Enjoy!

Marshmallow Turkey's She would say a few words with the sounds we were working on and then get a marshmallow to add to her turkey.

One of the Therapists had an alligator game that my daughter got to push the teeth down after saying some words and phrases with her sound. That gator could chomp.