sorry a bit late sept 21st (on the 22nd lol)

well i didnt have a ton of time to post yesterday after gages visit and i forgot that night too. im not really sure what all happened yesterday i was doing alot of talking with gages teacher michelle about gage and the fits hes been having and some other stuff about gage while carol was working with gage. however gage is saying "blue" now it makes me happy and he is also kinda saying hi you can tell thats what hes saying but hes not saying it very clear you really hear the "h" sound the most but its a step up and thats great and now he says "bye" instead of his bubye which is great and cute! hes also doing soo great with food i taught him how to say food by taking the sounds he already knew how to say and had him repeat each sound after i said them and then encouraged him to say them together but for awhile he was just saying "faaa" but now we can actualy get a "fffooooo" out of him and if you remind him to say the "da" he normally does. :) his drink is still da but with ALOT of perswading you can kinda get a dr out of him. lately weve been dealing with alot of fits and tantrums with him and its been taking a test on me its pretty had to deal with because he just doesnt know how to tell us why he is upset or what he wants and its hard on us all but we seem to be making it. im ready for this to get easier but this is something god has planed for us and hes helping us and teaching us i just have to keep praying to give gage more words. well i think thats most of what has happened here lately his next visit is on the 30th and that is my oldest 4th bday so i cant promise ill be writing that day/night but if i have some time while the kids nap since gages visit is in the morning i will certainly do my best :)

sept 7th

well today was another speech visit for gage and the second one with his new teachers. it went pretty well although when they got here gage was in trouble so he was pleased to go to his play room with them lol :). they played with some of his toys and they had brought some books along and an old pamason bottle with some poker type chips and gage was playing with those. its kind of amazing how they are able to get sooo much out of him just during play. they got him to say "chips" it was pretty funny when he learned that they were called chips he picked it up and acted like he was eatting it like a real chip. carol was reading gage a book with a barn and other barn animals and then they were pretending to eat the hay which carol didnt like the taste but gage loved it then michell asked gage to feed her pet cow and horse some hay too so gage picked some up out of the book (remember this is pretend still) and he acted like he was ganna give then in his mouth it went  then he took the book to the cow and horse and fed them :). it was also pretty funny when carol would ask gage for a chip gage kept saying no! its was adorable i thought ha. today i was able to get him to say cheese hes always getting so smart and quit the smart talker lol. although he is already really smart its just with him being able to talk and express it even more we are seeing more and more of this increadable smartness that just hasnt been able to come out yet and he is always amazing me even when its one of those smart moments that doesnt consist of words. i truely do love this little boy and its taken a lot of work to get him to where he is now and to how close he is to just exploading with words i cant even really count how many words he can say although it is mostly due to i forget then he says it again and im like oh yeah ha! oh and normally gage says buh bye all cute and the other day on the phone he said bye plan as day no slur no nothing just like how its spelt and how you and i would say then he also said it to the delivery lady who was dropping some stuff off at our house! he still says buh bye like normal but his bye with everything is just so pronouced its awesome :). i think thats pretty much all that has been going on i hope i didnt forget anything but if i did and i remember it or if something HUGE happens i will write another blog about it, if not his next visit is i think the 21st? at one again so if you dont hear from me before youll hear from me by the 21st after his visist :) hope you enjoied.