Picture Cards

Dearest Angels~

At 5:15am I changed you, Grace, quickly and then nursed you.  I heard the cat play in the plastic covering the carpet downstairs for a while (he came back in the house last night because of the storm).  I was just going back to sleep when daddy's alarm went off for work.  :-P
 

I went through Joshua's flash cards as I nursed Grace.  Joshua, you also ate a few cheerios with me.  You two helped me sweep the floors upstairs.  I didn't get to do the bathroom floors, but we got the bedrooms and hallway done.

UNC called me this morning!  I had to set up a medical record number with UNC for Joshua to become a patient there.  Once I did that, I was able to make an appointment with the Pediatric Speech Department.  The first available appointment was in september, just a few weeks away.  Joshua, you'll be evaluated with the speech pathologist first and then the feeding team (which has a GI specialist and a nutritionist).  It'll be a long appointment, about two hours, so daddy took off that day too to help and hear what they have to say.  I pray they can help you eat more.  On a positive note, you did eat a good amount of hotdog for me at lunch this afternoon! 
 

I played a little mandolin for you two.  I use the word 'played' lightly .... I mainly just noodled around on it.  I tried to tune it later in the evening but Joshua just wanted to smack it so I had to put it away.  It was weird going back to double strings .... I was use to the electric which doesn't have the double sets.  :-)

We saw Kim today for Joshua's speech therapy appointment.  He's still resisting the sign language and won't do any of the motions on his own (for either Kim or daddy and I).  We changed tactics today and tried using pictures instead.  He responded to that better.  Kim used a picture of bubbles to see if Joshua wanted to play with the bubbles.  He had to hand her the picture each time he wanted she to blow bubbles.  He did pretty well with that, so our homework is to make a list of things to make into picture flash cards for the house.  She also sent me home with a few to use.  We're going to continue to use the sign language too.

Once we got home I changed everyone and then nursed Grace.  I played with Joshua using his toy bus to see if he would imitate any noises.  He tried so that was fun.  :-)

I rocked Joshua to sleep at 3pm for a nap.  Yesterday he never took one and was crabby.  I didn't want that to happen again, so I did my best to get him down for a nap.  He fell asleep on me as Grace was playing in her swing.  :-) 

I made some eggs for dinner since Joshua ate some the other night.  He didn't want any today.  :-(  He did eat some goldfish though.

We played in the bonus room this evening.  We had some music playing as you two giggled around.  I had to hold Grace this evening though at bed time.  I have a feeling she won't sleep in her bassinet.  We'll see.  :-P

Sleep tight little ones!

I love you both so much!

~Mommy