Christmas in the air
Here is the stocking cloud the kids found one morning on the way to school and I reminded them that we couldn't be buying anymore toys til after Christmas, and this was Santa's little reminder.

University of Montevallo
For those students at the University of Montevallo, here he is (no matter what he said about his little sister tonight) blowing her toes after he's just painted them (this pic is only a couple of months old)...I'm very proud of little man, tonight he gave his first "presentation" to the up and coming Deaf ed and speech pathology majors at a college here in Alabama. And I BARELY GOT  A WORD IN EDGEWISE at certain

So this is where we are now...
So after years of teaching these two to listen and then repeat exactly what we say...we are now at a place that they can listen and process, change and then repeat what information will irritate the other one...Today I tell Brooklyn, "Go tell Gage that Home Alone 3 will be on in five minutes"   one

Lack of Updates
The lack of updates is due to my crazy keyboard...takes me like 15 min to write a sentence or two, I will get a new one asap...I've been subbing a lot this week and thankful for each day I get to go in. I love being around all the kids and seeing how different they all are and how individual each kid is. One kid said to me "Gage has tiny ears!" very matter-of-factly in which I quickly responded "and yours are big..."

The Presentation
I'm going to have to keep this brief, my keyboard has went haywire...takes me a minute to type 1 sentence! The EI presentations went well, some therapists came up to me afterwards to tell me I should go into speech pathology...I smiled and said "I've had great 'teachers'"...a mom w/a CP kiddo told me she thought I was great at what I was doing, she was warned that she might make me cry, she saw tears. If I can encourage even 1 person, it is  worth me standing up there w/nothing but life for credentials.I met some cicircle members: Maria and blogger Lisa , I love meeting all the families I connect w/online. Lisa&