The little things that make me proud

This morning Caleb was re-evaluated by a speech therapist. He started speech therapy in January when he was only really saying 5-10 words. In these past 6 months, he has gained leaps and bounds, and today he was deemed up to par for his age, and ready to be done with therapy. Wow! Needless to say, I am proud and excited that he has made such great accomplishments. It's kind of like his first "graduation"!

When he started speech therapy, I was concerned and doing everything I could to give him the best opportunity to catch up. If you know me at all, I was of course invisioning all worst case scenarios for the situation. Around the time we began, Caleb also had tubes put in his ears. We'll never know if that improved his hearing so that he was better able to understand and copy words, or if the help he received through Ken-O-Sha was what made the difference. Or maybe he just felt like delaying the talking until he was ready. Whatever it was, he is becoming a great communicator (at times a very demanding communicator!), and blossoming in his own way.

Not to belittle the help of his teachers, but I always felt that he was ok. They kept saying he was unsocial, not receptive to certain things, and unable to meet certain requirements for his age. Personally, as his mom, it was a struggle to hear that. The Caleb I see day to day is a happy, content, and somewhat reserved little boy. Doesn't personality or upbringing have anything to do with these learning milestones? I think so. But the experts don't agree. Whatever the reasoning, my little Caleb proved he is growing and developing right on track. He just knows it's ok to take things slow.... :)

"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again."