Walk For Apraxia and Stacias reaction to the fair

Hey Everyone we are so excited we are ready to take registrations for the 1st walk ever for kids who have Apraxia of Speech in Montana and Northern Wyoming. Though if your from the western Dakotas, southern Wyoming, or anywhere else you are welcome to participate as well.

To see all the details please go to

apraxia-kids.org/billingswalk

Saturday morning Mama took me and Bridget down to the fair to catch the rabbit show.

I was not impressed with watching the show though seeing my friend Dixie from the Easter Egg Hunt was fun.

We walked over later to see the horse show that was fun especially getting to pet a horse.

I loved the strawberry ice cream Mama got me.

Mama tried to get me to eat some chicken and rice but I was having nothing to do with it. I did eat a Viking on a stick.

I liked going on the rides especially the bounce house and the slide.

Stacias Latest Skill

When we put door knob covers on the doors we didn't want Stacia opening and making a mess with like the bathroom, Bridget's room, closets, ect we jokingly said that Stacia would figure out how to use them before Bridget did.
Saturday night Larry put Stacia to bed as he often does on the rare nights he is home. The next thing we know she is out in the living room again so back to bed. This was repeated 3 times with both Larry and Bridget taking her to her room as I was busy sorting through some clothes of Bridgets and matching them into outfits.
Finally Mama had to put her to bed at which point she stayed. Sunday night as Larry was working I was the one to put her to bed and she didn't come out once.

I am thinking that a certain little girl is wanting mama and only mama to put her to bed.

So far she has not tried opening any rooms we don't want her going into.

Stacia went to the lake

Stacia along with big sister Bridget, Abba, and Grandma and Grandpa P went to Wild Bill Lake by Red Lodge last Saturday. She had a blast according to the reports. While she didn't fish she enjoyed playing near the lake while Abba, Grandpa, and Bridget fished. Bridget caught her first fish and was very excited about that.
When they got home Grandma P fried up the fish and the girls got to try some fresh trout. Stacia seemed to like it as long as her fingers didn't have to touch it. She was not at all interested in using a fork to eat and with the little bones in the fish that you have to watch for I was not going to force the issue.

Fishing

Stacia went fishing today along with Bridget, her daddy, and Grandpa and Grandma P. Will know more later.

Reunion, 4th and what else has been happening

Stacia seemed to have a good time at a family reunion for my side as long as she was near Mama, Abba, Oma, or Bridget and as long as there were not too many people around her. If she got too many people around her she decided to hightail it out of there. She did enjoy checking out the port-a-potty, but was not too impressed with sitting on the seat. She actually acted scared. Not that I blame her those seats are awlfully big for such little bottoms.
Stacia went and watched the parade in Laurel with Mama, Abba, and one of Larry's brothers. It was fun watching for Bridget and her cousin  in the parade along with other friends that we know. She enjoyed watching her Uncle and the people who's house we were in front of throw water ballons and spray a hose of water at people. After the parade we went over to Larry's brother and his wife's house for a while until time to head home so that Larry could go to work. Bridget went over to  my brother's houseto play with her cousin in the pool  for a while while Stacia enjoyed having Mama all to herself and getting to watch some of her favorite DVDs.
Stacia enjoyed a brat and some miracle gelatin salad for dinner and then later came out with to start watching the fireworks. She ended up not being able to watch all of them because she choose to be trying to flip over the deck railing and Mama was not too keen on that idea especially in the dark. She got taken inside and put to bed.
Last night Stacia had a nightmare about 4 am it took Larry and I until almost 5:30 to get her settled down enough to go back to sleep. We were going to just put her back to bed in just a pull up. Not flying with her she insisted on jammies. We were going to let her keep the 4 weebles and the weeble trike that was out. No Stacia insisted that things be put away. It's almost comical how she insists that at least her room be kept clean and nothing is out of place when she goes to bed.

Great Day at Therapy

While Stacia was in both speech and occupational therarpy today I decided to run a couple of errands. Ok it was just running over to the inlaws to pick up Bridget's sunglasses, watch, and doodle roll that she had left there last night and then stopping at Panda Express to get myself an egg roll and a water.

I got a great report on Stacia that she had sat nicely and worked on her work, she said, bus, push a couple of times, hi to people, and she said bye bye.

It's amazing how far she has come.

The really interesting thing is I had warned her therapists that she might not be too cooperative since she woke up crying at 5:30 this morning. Larry was still awake so he went in and checked her. She was soaking wet and not going to put up with it for one minute longer. Now if we can just get her to the point where she wants to stay dry all the time and get her convienced to start using the potty.

Tammy

Stacia's Latest Word Count

I was just going through the list of words that Stacia can say that we can understand her at least 75% of the time.
Milk
More
Fish (fish crackers)
Cookie
Push
Bye
Papa (Grandpa)
Aba (daddy)
Mama
Oma (grandma)
Popcorn
Ba  with short a sound(bath)
Ba with long a sound (sheep)
Pooh ( that lovable character Winnie the Pooh)
Me
Bebe (Baby)
Banana
Up
Ni (Night)

Hopefully we will see the list grow as she adds new words to her speaking vocabulary. She has just taken off in the last 6 months since getting her DynaVox.

She is starting to put some words together like Bye and names and she is working on saying Hi and we are working on her saying Nana without the Ba in front of it, but there is no conviencing her of it. Of course she drops a lot of the sounds in the words but at least those around her all the time can understand her words. Example Popcorn comes out like Pop k n and Cookie is Coo ke though it's hard to write what she sounds like.

We are in the process of planning a walk for Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech for our area. The date is Saturday October 6. More information will be coming soon. Stay tuned.

Tammy