Braxten's Surgery

This morning at 730 we went and got checked in so Braxten could get tubes put in his ears! We had the cutest nurse, and my parents were nice enough to come along. The only hard part was handing my baby over to the anesthesiologist... I could tell by the look he gave me and his cry that he felt betrayed.

He seriously did awesome though, he was back in my arms by 915, he was a little sleepy but there were no tears or anything! So happy to have it over, and so glad he did great!!

Braxten's Speech Assessment

On Wednesday we met with a speech pathologist for Braxten's speech assessment. After asking me lots of questions and observing Brax for nearly an hour and a half this is what she told me...

Braxten has a phonological speech delay. He can say all the sounds and even has a pretty large vocabulary, the problem is putting sounds together. She pointed out Brax tends to say the first and last sound in a word and skip the rest. He is actually only behind in his speech by less then six months. She also said part of it is probably his hearing, but the other part is his brain is just focused on other things. She said in observing him she can tell he is extremely smart and imaginative and so his brain is working on other things right now.

She gave me things to do with him that may help and we go back in 4-6 months to see where we are at! Sorry no pictures... Just an update!

Next up: Surgery in a week and a half!

Halloween 2012 Edition

Braxten had so much fun trick-or-treating
it didn't take him long to figure out just what to say
he even got the thank you down!
I didn't dress up because Halloween seemed to sneek up on me
but we still had tons of fun...

with a little skeleton

trick-or-treating

carving pumpkins

eating lots of chocolate

baking {over 70} pumpkin cupcakes with cinnamon creme cheese frosting

chili and cornbread

devouring too much candy

it was tons of fun

notice the skeleton socks :) thak you target!

 

mommy & b trick-or-treating, he was so excited to go to the next house he couldn't even look at the camera

 

This house was amazing! You had to go through a whole maze to get to the trick or treats, and they gave out king size bars! yay!

my sweet parents carved woody and buzz for b...

and mater and lightning mcqueen.. spoiled boy

this is why you have kids... to raid their candy on halloween :)

the trick-or-treat bags I made to hand out

best. cupcakes. ever.

he had a blast trick-or-treating with mama, papa, and aunt carly

this was the only time he got nervous (same house as above)