We have been taking L to vision therapy since early January.  All the anti-vision therapy comments I received on the post about vision therapy had me mighty freaked out about wasting thousands of dollars on quackery.  Mr. A and I decided to go ahead with the first block of 7 sessions to see if we [...]

When L came home from China, she had a variety of delays, but didn’t qualify for Early Intervention.   I have been keeping an eye on her milestones and while she is still in the range of normal for most things, I have always wondered if maybe– just maybe– she is still struggling to catch up [...]

Lately, that is what L has been saying a lot.
All things “chinesey” have been a big topic for M too.  Both girls are processing appropriate to their different developmental stages.  It is challenging to make sure that we are getting to the root what they are saying when they are saying (yelling) it.
Recently, when L [...]

Odds and ends that could be entire posts, but aren’t:

The last couple weeks have been extremely hectic and unpleasant.  I blame Mr. A who volunteered to write a brief he didn’t have to write. Granted, it was so important it will go on his resume, but he is working WAY too much to be paid [...]

Two quick stories that are funny to me:
Today in the car, M randomly asked, “Mama, do you want to not have any more babies?”
“Yes. I don’t want to have any more babies,” I replied.
“Oh, well you better wear clothes when you are hugging Daddy.  That way, you can’t do the special hug where his penis [...]