My Funny Children!

Personalities!! I tell you. Sometimes they are like night and day. Reese-the ever talkative, happy, smiling, question asking, curious boy and Raygan-Elise- the vocal (yet with no words), strong-willed, demanding, although yes curious girl!

I think the older a child gets in school, maybe the less time during the day they have to talk and be social...too many worksheets and tests that must be accomplished. Now, I'm not saying this is the teacher's fault; its just school now. We love Reese's teacher, Mrs. Samsel. We've known her since we moved to OB. Her daughter, Jorja, was in my class with Reese for 2 yrs. and they've been in the same class until this year! Now, back to my point...talking. So, sometimes Reese comes home and he just has so much built up that he wants to talk about to me...So, we got in the car and without stopping to breathe or pause here is his story from last week on our drive to get Raygan-Elise from her school:

"Mom, I can't wait till I'm like 16 and can drive a car and I will say-mom I'm driving to a friends house and if u let me u will say ok but be home by midnight and I will say ok but I'll come home at 1 and then get grounded so that's not good (and without taking a breath) who are the people on the side of the road that pick up stuff. Are they just environmentally friendly or what? And if u r a passenger looking outside the more restaurants you see you get hungry then if its not a restaurant just a store with windows then u can see the food and get even hungrier. I'm a really good drummer. I remember that day when we had that party and we were trying to figure out who was coming at the right time and then u said Zoe coming at 1 and Clayton coming at 2 and Olivia coming at 3 and really our Christmas tradition should really be breaking something. Wanna know what made me think of that. It was that bent tree right there."
And there was actually another story bt the driving and people on side of road but I was typing yet at that time. We love his funny off the wall stories. Brian says he's just like his Poppa!


Now, Raygan-Elise is 18 months old. She is saying bye, mama, and sometimes baba. She was assessed through Simple Strokes and First Steps and does have an expressive and receptive language delay, which we've discovered (after a failed hearing test and a visit to an ent)is probably due to fluid buildup in ear. We've had 3 speech sessions and it does seem to help. Mrs. Angela gave us a little game of saying specific sounds to "name" specific objects. Some nights Raygan-Elise tries, sometimes not. But she is only 18 months! Her personality is really starting to show! She loves dancing and shaking head to any music. She even started blowing kisses last week! She has also gotten better at shaking her head yes and no but often gives us the wrong answer that she is trying to give. She had ear tube surgery last Tuesday (weighed 22 lbs 0 oz the morning of surgery) and the ENT said her ears were awful and bled a lot due to fluid build up damage. We are hoping this helps her a lot with both her frustrations and language. Early this week her ears were still looking bad (with the tubes you can see the infection, which is gross but helpful in knowing to go to doc) so back to the ent we went. More antibiotics and antibiotic drops and they cultured it! Hopefully this will be it for a while!