State of the Perry
A rare morning: Perry's sleeping late. So, we'll have an abreviated State of the Perry address (until someone wakes up and starts calling for his mama).
Since he's sleeping now, I'll start with the sleep stuff. He usually wakes up between 6:45 and 8:15. It's 9:00 now and he's still quiet, but this really doesn't happen very often. It's even more rare on the weekends. He takes one nap. At his daycare it's from 1:00 to 3:00, and at home it's usually later and sometimes longer. Occasionally he will refuse to nap.
He still eats a large variety of things: yogurt, pasta, rice, most kinds of fruit, pickles, olives (both green and black), cucumbers, corn, carrots, cauliflower, occasionally lettuce, green beans, potatoes, mushrooms or onions, and he reliably refuses tomatoes. He likes bagels with lox cream cheese, and will eat almost any kind of cookie or cake. He is starting to eat meat occasionally. He likes fish sticks and grilled carne asada, and sometimes sausages. He doesn't really get excited about the typical "kid foods" like hot dogs or chicken nuggets, but he'll eat french fries.
He can climb and has an amazing (frightening) sense of balance. He can also hang by his hands from a bar. He can walk about a mile, especially when there are trains at the end. He loves cats and dogs, and probably a lot of other animals if he ever got to meet them. He likes to pick up rollypolies, but his affection can be fatal to them. For some reason he loves bees [gosh, no idea where that comes from], and I'm afraid he's going to get stung, but so far he's been very good about not touching them.
He cannot talk. In August we took him to a speech pathologist, and she determined that he's got some apraxia, and that he was not in fact lazy, or deaf, or content not to speak. We're slowly learning some sign language so we can use it with him. He picks it up really fast, but it's his parents who are the rate limiting factor. So far Perry has had 2 sessions with the therapist and he does really well with her. It's too early to tell when we'll see the payoff at home. Somehow I think that a whiny toddler begging for cookies will be just as annoying if he can say the word "cookie" as if he can only point to the cookie container and grunt.
And that's it for now. Perry's still asleep, but there is still a lot of work I need to do to get us all ready to go.
Since he's sleeping now, I'll start with the sleep stuff. He usually wakes up between 6:45 and 8:15. It's 9:00 now and he's still quiet, but this really doesn't happen very often. It's even more rare on the weekends. He takes one nap. At his daycare it's from 1:00 to 3:00, and at home it's usually later and sometimes longer. Occasionally he will refuse to nap.
He still eats a large variety of things: yogurt, pasta, rice, most kinds of fruit, pickles, olives (both green and black), cucumbers, corn, carrots, cauliflower, occasionally lettuce, green beans, potatoes, mushrooms or onions, and he reliably refuses tomatoes. He likes bagels with lox cream cheese, and will eat almost any kind of cookie or cake. He is starting to eat meat occasionally. He likes fish sticks and grilled carne asada, and sometimes sausages. He doesn't really get excited about the typical "kid foods" like hot dogs or chicken nuggets, but he'll eat french fries.
He can climb and has an amazing (frightening) sense of balance. He can also hang by his hands from a bar. He can walk about a mile, especially when there are trains at the end. He loves cats and dogs, and probably a lot of other animals if he ever got to meet them. He likes to pick up rollypolies, but his affection can be fatal to them. For some reason he loves bees [gosh, no idea where that comes from], and I'm afraid he's going to get stung, but so far he's been very good about not touching them.
He cannot talk. In August we took him to a speech pathologist, and she determined that he's got some apraxia, and that he was not in fact lazy, or deaf, or content not to speak. We're slowly learning some sign language so we can use it with him. He picks it up really fast, but it's his parents who are the rate limiting factor. So far Perry has had 2 sessions with the therapist and he does really well with her. It's too early to tell when we'll see the payoff at home. Somehow I think that a whiny toddler begging for cookies will be just as annoying if he can say the word "cookie" as if he can only point to the cookie container and grunt.
And that's it for now. Perry's still asleep, but there is still a lot of work I need to do to get us all ready to go.