House of Krause

4/14/08.

I suspected today would be a rough one. Day after Easter, the kids were up late. They spent all day shoving candy in their mouths. Luke started his Easter with marsh mellow peeps, ended with pie.  Each stop, more eggs,  more candy. I knew Monday we would all be movin’ slow. Especially me, not really in the mood to drive to Murrieta for Luke’s speech therapy.  But so it goes, I got the coffee, hooked up Luke’s DVD player,  we raced out the door, stopped and picked up Nana and off we went.  Well first we figured out my right blinker was not working by nearly killing ourselves several times and wondering what exactly was the problem here. Mostly me yelling at people when it was my own fault. They didn’t even know I was coming over!  So we figured out the light situation and drove oh maybe ten more miles going about seventy (the speed limit) down the freeway. Well all of a sudden at the consul area of my car there’s a huge Pop, Bang, then sparks and smoke! I’m serious, we nearly hit the deck. My mom bless her heart thought some one was shooting at us. Well now we look down and figured out my new phone charger just exploded and is now on fire. So my mom was thinking maybe to dump my coffee on it. I was thinking no, that may start an electrical fire.  I didn’t know if I touched it If I might get a zap. But we managed to get it unplugged. It smoked for a bit. All while Luke was happily watching Mickey Mouse and having his juice! The rest of the way  we tried to relax, we were fine and we had a few laughs about the crazy drives to Murrieta!  Well turns out Luke wasn’t really in the mood for therapy today either.  He’s been working  on the ee sound.  Like Po-ee for pony. Ha-ee for honey. Ba-ee for bunny (for Easter).  He’s been working very hard and it is a brand new sound. Add that with to many marsh mellow bunnies on Sunday. He was waving bye- bye five minutes into therapy. He cried and reached for me the way he used to when we first started. It wasn’t easy but I found the brave face and we all encouraged him to get through this last set of ee cards. Inside I just wanted to make the sounds for him.   He reluctantly made it through. It was difficult.  We made it home but stayed in the slow lane. I think my mom literally kissed the ground when I dropped her at home.  Later on this afternoon Luke was happy to have his brother and sister home from school.  The kids and I were playing in the back yard when Luke discovered a wonderful word that utilized  his newly found ee.  We all stopped when Luke called out   “Li-ee!”  The girl of his dreams,  Lily! The smile on his face, and the pride I saw in his eyes, knowing he got her name to come out so wonderfully. He practiced a dozen more times and we all clapped and cheered. It made me feel so happy for him!  The freeways, small explosions, and the brave face, all so worth it! Even though he’s young he already knows what his struggle is. This moment was very meaningful for Luke.  He caught a glimpse of how Kaufman cards, speech therapy and Miss Megan, all connected him to calling someone he loves…Lily!

They are still best friends

March 27, 2011

Well we’ve very excited to say Luke had some more testing a couple weeks ago. He has so many sounds, and is receptively so smart. We still need to work on some more articulation issues. But by in large Luke is close to saying, “I have conquered my CAS!” When I read some of my older post it takes me back to a scary time when I didn’t know if he would ever talk? It warms my heart to see how far we’ve come

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I can’t wait to show a video of Luke now…I will hopefully get one up soon.

Love,

Jen

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHLOE!!!!!!!!!

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