I started laughing at him, and he gave me a look and said, “What’s so funny?”

Want to listen to my boys’ speech to hear what CAS sounds like? Our YouTube channel.

Our Apraxia Kids STARS page.

So yeah, I’m glad the importing finally worked.

Weapon X likes to tell me he’s going to keep me “porever”. He told me after the graham cracker incident above, “Mama I won’t hurt you, I just hug you and kiss you.” Before you aww too much, he also likes to take flying leaps at me unexpectedly, usually landing knees-first. This is a kid who’s going to jump out of planes someday with a Navy SEAL team, I just know it. When I was pregnant, X hid from the ultrasounds for a long time so we couldn’t see if he was a boy or a girl, so my brother nicknamed him Weapon X. Upon reflection, this was oddly prophetic.

They’re done with speech therapy for the summer now, though I still do the constant pronunciation and grammar reinforcements of course. We’re leaving on Tuesday for three weeks in San Diego with the Hubby, then we’ll be back home  for like a week before school starts. They’re doing speech therapy at school, it’s supposed to be twice a week for half an hour each time. School speech therapists don’t get as good results as private therapists in our experience – they don’t always work with the kids according to their specific diagnosis, even when they’re told to in an IEP. So we’re in the pool for the local university clinic, which is the only private therapy we can afford. We did therapy there during July and saw some improvement since they used apraxic specific techniques. I’ll be pushing the school more, as usual, to do what’s best for the boys rather than what’s expedient for them.

It’s hard sometimes, but they are making improvements, and the neurologist was positive about their future, which apparently he’s not normally very positive. I quite liked him, but the school STs told me they usually get parents complaining. I get along with doctors, even though I don’t trust them. The boys’ dentist told me he was glad I wasn’t one of those moms who freak out, that I kept it together and was calm, when Weapon X whacked his mouth and impacted a tooth (he was doing a flying leap at a friend’s house and landed on her coffee table. He makes me tired).

So that’s where we’re at. Hopefully we’ll continue to see leaps of improvement through their kindergarten year.

Alpha: You can’t go to Washington with me, doggy. You have to stay here.

X: There no dog food in Washington?

Alpha: I have to go to Washington. Good-bye.

Me: “Okay. The post office opens on Monday, and I’ll mail you to Nana.”

X: *thinks* “I need you again, Mama. I don’t need D (brother). Mail D to Nana.”

And at bedtime…

Project Alpha: “I don’t need you, Mama, get out of my room.”

Me: That’s because I locked it. You don’t need to be playing around in my car.

Him: We not playing around, just reading a book.

Me: Uh-huh.

Him: Where your keys?

Me: Forget it, dude, I’m not giving you my keys.

Him: I need you keys, Mama.

Me: No. You’ll never find them!

Him: How bout I check in you pocket.

Me: *laughing* How about not. You don’t need to play in my car.

Him: We not playing, just reading a book.

Me: Yeah right. Go read a book somewhere else. Not in my car.

Him: Where you keys? I can’t find you keys.

Me: *sigh*

Weapon X was bugging me for a popsicle today (after he’d already had 4) and I told him no. He started begging “peese Mama” until I told him to stop bugging me, then he hid under the table and after a minute I heard, “Mama, yeh ou no?” lol. That’s what I say to them when they’re not paying attention and I ask a question – “Hey! Yes or no?” They’ve started saying that a lot now.

Their enunciation has not improved yet, but they’re talking so much now and in real sentences, even Weapon X. He said a 10-word sentence to me yesterday, his longest yet.

I’m so glad he’s decided he likes dancing. I’m looking at classes to put them in this summer since they won’t be doing a summer preschool – they’re now too old – and I want them to have some activities out of the house and with other kids. I haven’t put them in anything before now because of their speech delays, other kids treat them badly most of the time. I get nervous taking them to a play area or a park, because inevitably some kid asks “What’s wrong with him?” They used to say “Why doesn’t he talk?” but now both of the boys are speaking, they just are still very delayed for their age.

I wanted to put them in a Saturday morning soccer class this month, but there’s only one slot open. One of anything does me no good, as I always say, so I’m debating whether to go ahead and pay for that slot, then hold off until right before the class and try to bully a Parks & Rec person into letting the other twin in the class too. Otherwise they’ll have to do soccer in August, and I’ll have to try to find something else. I need to find something for June. Thinking about karate, gymnastics, maybe some kind of arts thing. I think karate would be good for helping develop their gross motor skills and their adaptive behavioral skills. Gymnastics too. An art class would help their fine motor skills. I want them to do some kind of sport this summer, but the possible Hawaii trip sometime in July is making that hard to find.

Anyway. Random thoughts again.