Olivia's Speech Evaluation

As most of you know Olivia had ear infections the first 15 months of her life. We became concerned when at 20 months she still had minimal words in her vocabulary and was not trying to put two words together. I had asked our pediatrician at an appointment and she said we could have an evaluation done if we wanted. Chris and I decided to wait until she was 2 to see if she had made some progress. At her 2 year appointment Dr. Taylor told us that since she did not have 50 words and her vocabulary and was not consistently putting 2 words together we should think about having an evaluation done. Well, today was evaluation day! I was both excited and a little nervous. For Olivia to qualify for speech she would have to be 4 months behind. The ladies from Keep Pace came over and Olivia was her normal busy self. She worked with them and showed them her "skills". As we figured, she did not qualify for outside speech therapy but the more I think about it the happier I am. From their information, they concluded that she is 25 months but her communication age is 24 months. So, as soon as the ladies left and Olivia went down for a nap we made a list of all of her words. We are now up to 78 and she is putting a lot of those words together. The ladies told us that if in 3 months she is not progressing anymore that they could come back and do an another evaluation. I know she is going to continue to put words together but it was reassuring for us to hear that she is doing a great job as are we. I know sometimes Chris and I worry that we are not doing what we need to and of course as a teacher I worry what I could do more of to help her. But, we are very proud of our toot and all the progress she has made in the past few weeks.

On another note, I had my last 2 week check up yesterday and Kylee is doing great! I am 33 weeks and 5 days and she is measuring at 35 weeks. I asked my doctor if that meant she would come early and she said no but we shall see. I was also very excited that I did not gain ANY weight in the past 2 weeks! My doctor has been making comments about my weight and when she saw I did not gain any weight she asked if I was eating. Hello??? I eat ALL the time! It was good to hear her heart beat and know that she is growing and moving the way she is supposed to. I feel very blessed to have 2 beautiful girls in my life and Chris too!

We have our family/ maternity pictures this weekend. Our last family of 3 pictures before we are a family of 4.