Nico finally started speech, sort of...

It's not official because while we could start therapy, we still don't have all the stupid codes to do the eval yet so she did it today and will just bill it when they finally get it all straightened out since we've now been waiting for 3wks to start because the social worker can't get her act together to give them the code and then finally told them last week, "Oh, I need to process that paperwork and it will take another 2wks to get that approved but I'll put him down for an eval on the 20th". Of course, that is a Wedn not a Mon and the therapist is booked solid on Wedn. :roll:

Anyway, Nico was mostly cooperative in just playing and running from room to room, interacting nicely with both of us, and saying some of his words. We also went over what other words and sounds he knows, body parts, etc. He didn't want to do the actual "test" part of the eval of looking at pictures and pointing to specific ones as he had found a princess tea set and was serving everyone cake and tea (sooooo cute!) but he looked at other books and was pointing to pics and showing us what was going on in the pictures and babbling about them. She said that he shows that he can use all the positions in his mouth so it's just a matter of getting him to actually say the words. I have no idea what the recommendation is going to be but I'm guessing he'll be there on Mondays for an hour while Jonathan is at OT so that works for me. The other 2 big boys stay home with Gabriella at that time so they can do their schoolwork while the other two are at therapy.

Oh, and the OT brought up Jonathan's reflux again. He's been complaining tons of stomach aches and wanting to throw up and stuff coming up for a couple of months now. Mark's family are ruminates so their tummies get upset easily and don't settle back down quickly so she recommended some probiotics for him so after therapy, we hit GNC and got some chewable acidopholus and papaya enzyme for all the big boys to take, some 1mg melatonin for Matthew, and some probiotic capsules for me since I'm having problems with reflux right now too. Hopefully that will help get things working better for everyone.