Speech Fairy

While Elena doesn't know the whole score with Jonah, some differences are obvious to her, and his freakishly full schedule does not go unnoticed. I explained that he is having a little trouble learning to talk, so we are taking him to speech therapy so that a special teacher can help us teach him to talk. Somewhere in this process, she must have spaced out (no, really) or misheard me, but now when we take Jonah for his appointments, Elena says that we are going to the Speech Fairy. Which I refuse to correct because it is both cute and apt.

When we first started speech therapy about 8 months ago, Jonah could say Mama, Daddy and uh-oh and not much else. Now, we can go through whole stacks of flashcards, and he can name every picture I show him. More than that, it's like he was sort of locked inside himself, and Ms. K (the speech fairy) knew just how to turn the key and open him up to us. HE talks to ME. HE tells ME, "I love you" or "sweet dreams". Magic. It's just- she flipped the switch to "ON".

And he gets such a thrill out of this new "Hey, I can control the universe with my words" thing. Like, that's right Mama, I just asked for "more" puzzles like a badass. Probably the thing he says most is "good boy!" which we scream at him every 10 seconds for some reason or another, and he laughs and claps and is just 100% WITH us.

So, thank you, Speech Fairy. You can't imagine how much this means to us.