switched visit

well due to codi getting sick this week we werent able to go to ks for gages bday so we switched visits so we can go this week so this blog is for that visit on the 9th. i cant really remember alot ive have alot of very long days and nights with little sleep, i dont remember what all they did other than play with some tractors and animals. gage had done alot of communicating with his teachers i dont believe he had said anything really new but he was just talking alot more and asking more it seemed. although we do now have a new word we can add to his list of words today i was in the kitchen with my mom who came up to help me rest or do what really needed to be done and i asked gage to take his trick or treating bucket he got from mc donalds before halloween. i had been trying to get him to say the words "trick or treat" for halloween and i couldnt get him to do it so to carry on i told him to go and put his bucket in the dinning room so he took it held it up and said "trick or treat!" ugh why now two weeks after! but its so sweet and he keeps saying it he said it several times for daddy when he got home so we gave him some candy from his other halloween bags lol. i love this kid sooo mcuh he is always learning new words he is soo close to talking like normal im so proud of him. because we got his visit switched he doesnt have his next one until the 30th and it will be a different type of visit im not sure how much they will actually work with him but well see

ok well ive missed a blog..

ok so this is going to have to work as a double blog because he had a visit then another visit before i could even get on here they were only about a week apart IF!
i dont remember the days but i remember what had gone on. dustins step mom and dad were up here and i had forgotten the ladies were even coming i had it written down but i was mixed up on my days until i made a phone call. either way they ladies came and they had plaied with him i think with a touchy book at first then carol had brought out her moon sand. gage didnt do alot of talking but he did alot of interacting and doing what he needed to get what he wanted such as a tool or something but he wasnt talking alot. after they had left he was talking more and more even started saying two word sentences :). i dont remember what new words he had come up with after they left but obviously he was saying them by the time they came back the next week.
new words or words say more and more that gage has said: i do, in there, blue, yeah, no, night night, nanna(for banana not grandma like normal) hi. and there are others i just cant seem to think of them and every time hed say something new id think oh i need to blog this just never had the time! two kids walking makes it all crazy!
this last wednesday at his second visit. they came and the kids were still eatting their lunch so while gage finnished i talked with them and informed them of the things gage has been saying and then they all began to play. they were playing with a peg board type of thing where gage could stack them up and such. he did a TON of talking during this visit hes saying words that you know he is saying something you just cant quite figure it out yet.. he also did a bit of drawing he is doinng amazing at drawing it looks like he is actually trying to draw something its not always clear what hes trying to draw but you just know it! im so proud of him this is sooo much fun codi is talking as well its just soo much fun talking to gage and him actually talking back to me saying yeah or i do or no or something he is so wonderful im so happy about this! that is pretty much all so far his next app is this comming wednesday

oct 12th...

so im a few days late from his app ive been so busy lately so im so sorry. so gage had another visit on the 12 and as you know today is the 15th ugh! i wish i would have gotten to this that day i have one heck of a horrible memory these days too. well i cant really remember if he said any new words  he always is but its not always catchable. they right down a few things that he says and he was doing a fantastic job talking with them, and corrosponding with them and such. i had asked them a few questions about milk cuz i have learned something about whole milk i didnt know and that made me wonder if that was part of why he is a late talker. we were also talking about gages since of humor they said 2 and 3 yr olds dont have a since of humor like gages at all and as i was thinking about it you really dont see that until boys are atleast 5 before they find farting and farting noises funny the way gage does and other things. you have to know gage is very smart and finds things very funny esp things on more grown up shows. its hard to really express how gage really is by typing it almost has no real say in who he really is you just have to get to know him! i now feel like though that we arent in this stand still so much anymore i feel like more and more hes picking things up so that is wonderful! i think this is everything so far gages next visit i think is the 26th and i will do my hardest to get on and write by then.

sept 30th

sorry im a day late in writing this again but there was a birthday in the family so yeah. gage had a visit yesterday and gage showed them the upstairs and how he LOVES his lite-brite. they plaied with some building blocks and gage was trying to say blocks he was doing great getting the "b, ah" sound out for it. although sometimes im not sure if he was trying to say blocks or more but it sounded like more to me.. hes doing really good but i do feel like were almost in a stand still hes still trying and working with it but its just slowed down i dont think hes idk what im rying to say lol. the good thing is hes still trying. he continues to work onn saying food even better so that is wonderful to me! i dont think theres anything else right now his next visit is i think the 12th. oh idk if id said this begore but he is saying cheese esp when he wants his pic taken soo if anything happens or i remember more and the kids arent driving me insane ii will post until the 12th then.

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.

transition visit

well as i said id write after every meeting, atleast. today gage had his meeting and jenny came with the two new ladies and gage ran right up to jenny and hugged her forever then took the new lady michell into his room to play with his toys. the new carol was in the living room with me and jenny talking for a quick min then we all went into the play room. gage seemed to do really good with the new ladies but i still worry what will happen when the next meeting comes and there is no jenny. it was sad to see her go im still not happy about it  but these new ppl seem really nice.  gage still continued to talk and interact but i think its still ganna take a while for them to get the hang of gage but we all seemed to have fun :). gage didnt want jenny to go when it got closer for them to leave jenny laid in her lap and just wanted to stay there i think that really made her day and hopefully not making it harder to leave i know gage loves the "old" carol and jenny and i know they both adore him, hes a wonderful and great little kid and so much fun. it seems like michell (i actually dont know if this is how she spells her name so it may change when i remember to look it up) and the new carol will have alot of fun with gage carol said gage is the only child she has even know to have never had an ear infection at all esp since hes almost 3 now which goes for me other than gage and codi i dont know another child whos never had one i know ive had one but idk if i did as a baby. makes me happy and proud. really there wasnt alot going on it was mostly catching up and letting them and gage get to know each other while i filled them in and jenny and i helped them learn some things that have seemed to worked in the past so there isnt alot to say other than that. i think his next visit is at 1 on the uhhh well ill just go look it up lol. ok so his next visit is at 1pm on sept 7th so well just have to see how that goes.. he gets 3 visits per month we were talking about making it 4 around now but i decided we will just wait and see for now since the last couple of visits he was doing alot more mimicing (sp) so we will see this is a new journy for us again with this switch but so far so good :).