Speech therapy for Nora

The speech therapist came over yesterday and did an assessment of Noras' comunicative abilities. She has the receptive communication of a 30 month old but the expressive communication of a 12-15 month old. Big gap there...the therapist said she had never seen such a huge gap between the two. The cause? We're not sure. They didn't outright blame the binky but that probably hasn't helped things the past few months. They are thinking that there may be a genetic/familial component as Ella and I had delayed speech and made up our own language as kids. She said that kids who are a bit delayed with speaking often have a grandparent or parent who was also delayed in their speaking.

So Nora will start speech therapy in a few weeks. Should be good for her-a little one on one with an adult (other than her parents) who expects good communication. I'm quite excited about it.

The speech therapist thinks that once she starts speaking, her language will really take off fast. It'll be fun to watch.

Stuey slept in his playpen last night from 10 pm to 6 am. I kept expecting him to wake up and need to come to bed, but he didn't! I was so thrilled. He slept hard-i think better than when he is in bed with us. We're not waking eachother up every 2 hours! Hopefully this is the start of a new sleeping trend. Yeah! :)

Zoya