The Car Goes Beep Beep Beep

Speech is going well. He is still moaning, but not as much. We had him start signing again. He has to have a sign for whatever he wants and if he shows us the sign, he gets what he wants. It is hard to watch him get frustrated and process which sign to use. Sometimes, he looks like a base coach telling the catcher the plays. He is getting more confident in his ability to communicate with us and that makes us the happiest. It is one step forward, two steps back and we got the news that it is going to cost us $130 a week to keep him in therapy due to a change in insurance with Gregg's job. Just as we were questioning the whole thing, he had a break through in his session. Me and Mrs. Heidi teared up as we saw all of the pieces to the puzzle begin to come together in his brain. He has added a couple of words back into his vocabulary, no and more. In addition to the signs, he has to have an environmental sound for every word. The Car goes beep beep beep. Once he says beep, then we will want him to say car and then stop saying beep. You get the idea. It seems kinda backwards, but it seems to work. Once he knows a new word, he gets rewarded somehow and has caught on to the reward system, feels more comfortable with Mrs. Heidi and is showing lots of improvement at home. I remember Jaime telling me how exhausting the labeling everything phase was...this is a car, say car over and over. I have to agree with her, it is exhausting even to this mama who likes to talk. I can't tell you what goes through your mind as a mother when you start piecing things together, allergies, loves vacuums, head banger, moaning, losing vocabulary etc. And for that, we will thank God for answering our prayers of it just being a speech delay.