Happy New Year

I can't believe how much time has passed since my last entry. Thank you all who continue to check on us and send encouraging words and prayers to us through email from time to time. Alex took quite a bit of a break from therapy during Christmas. It turned out that it took him about the whole Christmas break to get sick and then well enough to return to school come January. He had some sort of viral infection which led us to the emergency room one early morning after Christmas. We also happened to be out of town, which made things interesting. Alex's fever was spiking and holding at about 104, and when he began hallucinating, we decided we would take him in to be checked out. Now, THAT was scary! I had given him Motrin for the fever, and was told that we were just to push liquids (he wasn't eating at all, and barely drinking, so there was a concern for dehydration as well), keep up the Motrin and do the best we could do to make him comfortable until the virus had run it's course. Fortunately, the next day we did see some significant improvement. He's been happily back to preschool and back into our therapy routine since the beginning of the year. Of course, now he has caught a cold and has a congested cough and runny nose. My poor baby. If it's out there, he's going to catch it! Anyway, he continues to show steady progress with his speech and delights us almost every day with the new things he can say. A few examples are "I got coal in my train car!, I smell it (skunk) too!, and I go tell my mom!" LOL Of course, there are still many articulation errors, but we are talking about a child who was unable to say "mama" and was struggling to put two words together just this time last year. I am so excited to think about how he is going to mature and make progress this coming year! So, stay tuned! :o)