Fall is getting colder and Christmas is coming up and along with it plans for presents and pictures and sending out cards. Hopefully I send them out this time. Hasnt worked so far but I have good intentions. :P Anyway along with these expenses comes gloves hats and boots for the winter (thank God their coats still fit!) So I realize saving money for an IPAD and the Proloquo2go app is a bit out their but Im hoping to put a little bit away every month starting in January and hopefully by December of next year we can get the IPAD which is a start. Im hoping to access some funds through the kids' many workers to help finance the program but Im getting really excited about what it will unlock with my children! They are using an IPAD in speech therapy and Im amazed at how much they can express with it! Im working on getting a kinda electronic touch communication device for Angel to use in school to maybe help with the echolalia. Isaiah can communicate a bit better than her even though he has trouble forming the words. I can only do one at a time. He is next. Currently Im using sign language songs modeling what they should say and repetition and phone calls to daddy and gramma and auntie becky which all helps along with the picture schedule and I will continue these things but just add the ipad into the therapy program. Im excited to see what it helps them unlock!

School Days

This school year has been particularly challenging because Angel started Kindergarten and Isaiah is in preschool still which means different times for pickups and only one mama. I should add to further complicate things that the bus stop is on the opposite end of our one way street and I need to use the double stroller to safely get them there. I've been dealing with this by leaving Isaiah in his room waiting till the last minute and running Angel to her bus early in the morning but social workers don't like that even though given my situation they admitted they would probably do the same thing. Then Angel started having severe muscle weakness and seizures from stress and fatigue after school so I arranged an IEP meeting to shorten her day to Isaiahs times and she's much better now. Man does it suck to go through IEP meetings alone. It feels like I won a wrestling match. They continue to guilt me about what she's missing out on but I remind them she has Art Therapy Speech Therapy Stage Play and Polinsky after school so she's covered. And  I offered to do homework with her after school on the math class she misses but so far the teacher hasn't sent any home. I'm also sending cold lunches as I discovered that gluten and processed foods and dairy mess up their tummies. I am taking a 2 week break due to a torn meniscus in my knee but as soon as I return this will be our routine: school 10-3 mon-fri. Art Therapy and Stage Play Mondays Pacific Child Autism ABA Behavior Aid Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays Speech Therapy Wednesdays and Polinsky Thursdays. They go to dadys on weekends and he has them now so I can recover. We also have pcas during the week so they can take the kids to do things mama cant cuz of my knee. Angel has an mri on halloween so keep her in prayer.