Random kid tidbits....

Today, Chris went to a co-op meeting and to the gym, and I had the privilege of hanging out with the kids this morning. It honestly never felt that way before, but now that I don't seem them as often, it definitely does. We had fun playing "trolley car tour guide" where we drove all over the Bay Area and waved to all of our haunts and friends - and picked up a lot of them on the way. It was very sweet. We played play dough, and Liam had the great idea, after Chris had shown him the movie, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," to make Violet and chewing gum out of play dough. Then he fed Violet the blueberry gum, and she, of course, turned into a giant ball of blue playdough (i.e. a blueberry) - he then took Violet to the "juicing room" - which was one of those plastic playdough machines that turns a lump into spaghetti strings or something like that. Too cute.

Kalian's starting to say more words, like "ba" for ball, "da" for dog, and of course, dada, mama, yeah, and hmmm...what else? If you sing, "Old McDonald had a farm" she'll sing "E-I-E-I-O" Admittedly, this is all such a relief - after Liam's speech challenges.

Bummer about Liam's therapy stuff. We walked over to the Cambridge Public School Family Resource Center to sign Liam up for therapy, as per the director of special education directed us. Oops - he was wrong. We have to go somewhere else. Meanwhile, we didn't call a local resource early enough (Emerson) to get Liam signed up for close to free therapy sessions. Ugh.