Verbal Diarhea

Joey has it. I've said it before, and his speech therapist confirmed it.

Ya see, Joey has some minor speech delays. It's only 'minor' now, last year it was kinda major. He's come a VERY LONG way with his speech. I'd say he's made a 90% improvement over where he was last time this year. I can tell that he's doing better when he can carry on a conversation with a complete stranger and they can (for the most part) understand everything he says.

But insert the VD (verbal diarhea, not venerial disease,lol). This has been an ongoing issue since he learned how to speak, and where most of his problems occurred - or the reason they occured. It's like his mouth is trying to act faster than his brain, or vice versa. He starts talking sooooo fasssssssst that words come out jumbled and it almost sounds like greek or something, lol. Can't understand a word of it, just a jumbled mess. He still does it when he gets overly excited or he's telling a story that he made up.

At last, a formal diagnosis. Verbal Diarhea. Not curable with Pepto or Immodium, but he'll eventually get over it (I hope!).

Plethera of Coca-Cola thingies!

I lurve Coke. I lurve Coke products. On my trip to Georgia I made it a point to get to the World Of CocaCola Museum in Atlanta. I spent my last $35 on souveniers which were to be lost along with my luggage during my return flight home. My pal Carrie was kind enough to send me a few things that she found on a few of her shopping excursions, so my newly formed - then lost - coke collection had renewed life.

Then at the dollar tree today...I see it. A cardboard rack with COCA COLA DISHES on it! Only $1 each! I got one each of the cups, plates, & bowls - only a total of 6, but that made me happy! And then, as I was standing in line I saw 2 sized Coke Glasses - the old fashioned green-coke-bottle kind on top of a soda cooler. Snatched those up too!

Anyway, that made me very happy.

I ended up spending exactly $22 at the Dollar Tree. Can't remember exactly waht I got. There was some Halloween decor type stuff, Joey got a couple toys...then my coke stuff. Oh yeah, some chalk. I bought him a big chalk board at Walmart to practice writing his letters and numbers on :)

This morning at school...

Nothing out of the ordinary, lol. Just school. But I did manage to take my camera for PE pics. I also had the honor of getting stuck outside during a fire drill. I was trying to have a short conference with his speech therapist and the stupid alarm went off. That was FUN, lemme tell you!

Here are the pics...

Me & Joey waiting outside his classroom. This is the only halfway decent one, he kept making stupid faces half outside of the frame, lol.


PE - Doin' the Chicken Dance!


More PE - doing the big parachute thing. I missed the 2nd half of it to go into the conference, but I caught this part :)

And lastly, the fire drill. See the nice lines? Good kids, good kids!