Speech School.

Today is our first day of speech therapy! Out of the 34 short months Ronnie has been with us he has enlightened my life in so many ways. When I had him everything was supposed to be so perfect, so easy, in and out and then go home with my brand new baby. Well by far that isn't what happened. A trip to Mary Bridge, a 17 day stay, 5 days on ECMO, and ALOT of specialist appointments later brings us to today and speech therapy. Thank god that everything we have done up to this point has come back normal, but I feel like I am on pins and needles everyday that he will be behind or something will be wrong. So we started with a hearing test when I would get multiple huh? Responses from him in a day....have you ever tried to give a 2 year old a hearing test? Not very definitive at all. The audiologist suggested that maybe we try a speech evaluation, that was last week. It was a great evaluation, I really liked the pathologist, I think Ronnie did too. Her name is Brenda and she decided that speech therapy would benefit Ronnie.

So that brings us to today. Our first speech therapy session. We hyped it up and said we were going to speech school, Evee got excited for him and so then he was excited too. We put underwear on him went to the potty and we were ready to go. When we arrive at speech school (which is in the hospital building in silverdale) we were a little early so we stopped at the gift shop and checked out the toys and we found some skidders non slip socks for him to wear over his regular socks because he always takes his shoes off and is more comfortable that way. So they will be his speech school socks and will go in our speech school bag.

The gift shop is on the first floor and speech is on the second so we pushed the button and rode the elevator up, went to the potty and then came to meet miss Brenda. I do really like her.

Now I let him go back with her by himself, and I'm not to sure how I feel about it yet, but so far it's not bad, because, I really do like her. So Ronnie is at speech school and mommy is in the waiting room, waiting until 12:25 for miss Brenda to come out and talk to me about the session. Then off to meet daddy and Evee for lunch!

This is going to be a good thing for us!