Well, Ken took them in for their speech therapy appointment. It turns out that the old addage is actually a little true – they are "too smart for their own good"! Their comprehension is too good – they really understand our complex sentances and are frustrated since they cannot answer in kind. So we basically need to dumb down our speech and put more emphasis on certain words we want them to notice. They are also VERY evasive when it comes to eye contact (could have told her that LOL)… it is their way of ignoring us. So we have to work on that too. It is a little frustrating as working on this with both of them and having the baby in the house is going to be tough. Emanuel, on the other hand, is demanding of eye contact – so we rather think we will NOT have this trouble with him… at least I can pray we don’t. Hopefully we will see results before too long and shore up our confidence. A little part of me still feels like I must have done something wrong to have them develope so. Ken says that we are good parents but I still worry… is that part of being a good parent? LOL
We don’t have an appointment next week as the woman is only in Monday to Wednesday, but the following 2 Mondays and then a third if Ken is not in Germany (nope we still don’t know).
This is a week of news – Ken’s office is FINALLY out of the basement and into a new building – I am hoping to put Emanuel in the carrier and the twins in the wagon and take them all there to meet him Friday after work. Also – we are the proud owners of a new/old van – a 2002 Grand Caravan – red. With WORKING A/C!!!! Such good news.
Of course this afternoon we get a call from our phone company that we are late on a bill – good with the bad right?