Redemption

Jacob had a session with the speech therapist this morning. She brought a baggie with 4 different whistles for Jacob to practice. There's a flute, a straw, a duck (looks like a referee whistle), and funny, blue lips. Each whistle is different in pitch as well as difficulty to blow. These whistles will help to strengthen mouth muscles and his lungs to help make sounds better.

Jan and Jay worked on the vowel sounds, mostly. Like oohs, aahs, wows, yucks, etc. They did a couple of handouts. They cut-out the pictures, made the sounds, pasted them to the paper and colored them. She also brought a book, If you see a kitten. If you have a chance, follow the link. This book looks for the child to give a one word response using the same vowel sounds they practiced. Plus it's cute to boot! Jacob loved it!

We're now tasked with practicing the whistles and adding more to our little band. I'm hoping to find a set of instruments to keep practicing and a copy of the kitten book for both home and day-care. We will continue to work on our vowel sounds. Since Jacob has become much of a mimic this past week, we should see quite a bit of cooperation on his part. No, I'm not counting on it!

Jeremy and I both felt better after this session. Kind of an "Ah! Finally!" feeling. They'll be back once a month through the summer and we will work on each session until they return for the next. This is more of where we wanted to be. Hopefully we can make some good progress and have a little fun too!

Jacob has also taken to calling Jeremy "Big Da!" or "Big, big, Da!" I don't know where it came from but it's too funny!