Speech therapy

Jaime is almost 3, and we still are having issues with his chewing and swallowing.


I was referred to a speech and hearing therapist, and finally after almost a month I got a slot just for his initial assessment.

We are now 4 sessions in and she has completed her initial assessment with a recommendation that he continue for a few more sessions so we can work on a few factors.

Basically with regards to his speech, he is pretty much on par. She is happy with his vocabulary and his sentence structure. Various exercises were done for example describing pictures, talking to cars and fire men, more detailed one like showing him 3 pictures and asking to choose the best picture that described “the girl is jumping”, “the green circle is around the car”. He did exceptionally well, she was very impressed with his attention skills and his way of thinking, she said he was above standard in this regard.

Apparently he uses alot of phase 3 sentences (simple noun, object, verb) where he should be using phase 4/5 sentences already (adjective noun verb noun, indirect object). The therapist will work on this.

With regards to the eating, he has low muscle tone in the jaw area which probably is the reason for his difficulty in chewing. He chews gets tired and then stores it in his cheek. This, she says we will work by doing jaw, tongue and mouth exercises, for example blowing bubbles out of different types of bubble toys.

I’m not too stressed with regards to the low tone lot of kids have it, especially prem kids, and they continue to live a normal life with it, they just adapt and change their way of doing things. For now we just continue with the therapist (also thinking of doing OT) and help my man adapt. 

Avo's Surprise 60th Birthday

14 March 2011 - Celeste Duarte Surprise 60th

My Avo hardly ever celebrates her birthday with a party, but this year she turned 60 so we surprised her!  We invited all the ladies, cousins and friends, for a relaxed breakfast at Cafe Bellini.  We think she suspected something but with Tia Fatimas help we managed to get her there and still surprise her!

the realisation

The table - lime green overlays, with a single red rose on each plate, crystal serviette holders and the thank you gift being a hand bag perfume holder with either "Beautiful" or " Anais Anais"

My Avos

Both the cake and the card was specially made for the occassion.  The cake had pics of the family and various pics from Avo's growing up years.  The card had a pic of Avo at her matric farewell and family pics just below.

 

Me and my boys

Avo and the boys

Rafael and I playing in the cage in the garden

Me

Everyone had a gorgeous time.  Wonderful breakfast and loads of cake!

Happy Birthday Avo, hope you enjoyed your surprise!

Face painting day

Face painting day at school.  Jaime was the only one who wanted a Lion, the rest of teh boys had spiders...ha ha he is already ahead of the pack!

Mom's shoes fit

Mowing the lawn

ALong with teh gorgeous rays of summer come the afternoon thunder storms.  Both these factors result in our grass growing really quickly.  Someone has to cut it....

Its going to be a long day ... lets get to it

Checking the petrol levels...ie bubble fluid

and now what...the tree is in the way!

My personal photographer

Jaime has truly found his talent!  Photography!!  He randomly steals my camera and starts taking pics all around the house!  Normally when he takes properly targeted pics they turn out really good ie the last pic!

Oops wrong way round...tee hee

My study chair

My desk lamp

Ili's aunt and Myself at a wedding

My talented boy!