An Update

Sorry it has been over a month since the last post. I haven't taken many pictures over the last month or so because we have been sick almost the entire time. We did have a nice New Years in Columbia and everyone stayed well long enough to visit, but as soon as we got home, I got sick. Then Jonathan was doing lousy. Now, Sean is sick-on his birthday weekend! That sucks!

I hope to be back to blogging regularly now. I have some updates I want to post to Sean's page so look for them soon. He is still making slow, steady improvements and we are adding some new approaches to his therapies. He also got all Excellents last week in preschool. The teachers said he was talking up a storm.

Eli is a character. We have a hard time keeping up with him. He is the roughest, most destructive little kid I have ever seen. He had an informal evaluation with a speech therapist and she says Eli is doing just fine. He only has a few words but he has lots of babbling and vocalizations. She said with him being a boy who is obviously focused on the physical aspects of life she wouldn't expect him to be an early talker. Most importantly, all of Sean's therapists agree that they don't see any reasons to believe that Eli is autistic. I didn't suspect it either but it's nice to hear some professionals agreeing with me.

It has been ridiculously cold here the last several weeks. The weather seems back to normal now and we hope to go to the zoo and the beach this holiday weekend, assuming Sean just has a minor cold and not something more serious. Either way we will try to find some way to celebrate my baby's 4th birthday. Four years old! I can't believe it!