We're still here.....
I've been remiss in my blogging lately, but we've been busy. After being on extended leave for more than two years, I returned to work last week. While the transition has gone better than I had anticipated -- Emma seems to adore her nanny (we're actually nanny-sharing with friends who have a daughter who is a couple of months younger than Emma) and Big Sister is really loving her school daycare -- it means that already-busy days are now just this side of crazy....
Following the (unsuccessful) swallow study of a couple of weeks ago, Emma has had a few other appointments. She had another hearing test at CHEO's audiology clinic, mostly to make certain that an undetected hearing problem wasn't contributing to her speech delay. Happily, Emma's hearing was fine. She has also started speech therapy (we're still waiting for her SLP evaluation at CHEO, so we're seeing a therapist in private practice) and it seems to be going well. Emma has a repetoire of about 30 words, but doesn't say them all very clearly, and hasn't yet put 2 words together (well, except for "all done" which we hear pretty regularly). Emma's therapist does not feel that there is a major delay, but we're working on a few different things and are trying some new strategies to enhance Emma's speech. (*edited to add: I started this update last week, and in the in the past 7 days or so, Emma has added several new 2-word combinations including: 'cuse me/'cuse you, thank you, and Hey Dude!)
Finally, we spent a few days visiting Eric's family to celebrate his dad's 70th birthday. Eric's grandmother arrived from Germany and Emma was finally able to meet her Oma for the first time.
Let's just say it was love at first sight:
Following the (unsuccessful) swallow study of a couple of weeks ago, Emma has had a few other appointments. She had another hearing test at CHEO's audiology clinic, mostly to make certain that an undetected hearing problem wasn't contributing to her speech delay. Happily, Emma's hearing was fine. She has also started speech therapy (we're still waiting for her SLP evaluation at CHEO, so we're seeing a therapist in private practice) and it seems to be going well. Emma has a repetoire of about 30 words, but doesn't say them all very clearly, and hasn't yet put 2 words together (well, except for "all done" which we hear pretty regularly). Emma's therapist does not feel that there is a major delay, but we're working on a few different things and are trying some new strategies to enhance Emma's speech. (*edited to add: I started this update last week, and in the in the past 7 days or so, Emma has added several new 2-word combinations including: 'cuse me/'cuse you, thank you, and Hey Dude!)
Finally, we spent a few days visiting Eric's family to celebrate his dad's 70th birthday. Eric's grandmother arrived from Germany and Emma was finally able to meet her Oma for the first time.
Let's just say it was love at first sight:
posted by Laurie at 23:51
3 Comments:
"Hey Dude" is a very cute phrase and I think it works in tons of situations (especially when strung alongside "all done" and "'scuse me.") My now-four-year-old niece was taught by her pre-teen sisters "peace out!" when she was about 2 and that was adorable (admittedly, this particular four year old was linguistically precocious, which makes it all the more difficult for us because she was speaking in four to five word sentences by age one. We'll take that by the end of age 2, thank you!).
Anyway, Emma is adorable (as usual) and I was happy to see the update. Good luck with the work/nanny thing; it's probably a harder transition for us moms than for the kids.
Woot! Emma can speak!
Muhahahahah!
HEY DUDE! Omg how cute! Great that she is changing her speech now. I bet she will be talking clearer than some of the kids I work with at the school now. And they are in grade 5.
Hey Dude...I'll have to get her to say that when I see her next.
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