Guitar Man

Youngs Dairy

October 29

Yeah!!! We just finished our 3rd postplacement for Justin. Now we just have 1 more left to go. Justin is growing up so fast. He has changed a lot this year. He learned how to make the clucking sounds in August. He loves to play his guitar and sing at the top of his lungs. I will post a clip of him doing it. He just got 2 teeth pulled this month. (Over the summer he fell really had and hit his teeth. This month they had gotten so senstive that it hurt him to eat and drink.) Justin is also going to speech thearpy 2 times a week now. He is making lots of progress, yet he has a long ways to go. He loves his preschool class and riding the bus. Things Justin doesn't like, well, just mention soup for supper and nap time. He does not like to wait for anything. His favorite phrase " wait all day?". Just a few minutes seems like all day to him. I know that pictures speak louder than words, so enjoy.

May 2010

So much time has flown by since I have last updated and this time a I have a couple of pictures to post. Justin does not like his pictures taken, so it is hard to get good ones of him. Justin started preschool a few weeks ago. He is an IED student. So he gets speech therapy and OT therapy at school. I also have him in private speech and ot therapy. He is struggling a lot with speech. I can understand about 50% of what he says, strangers can understand about 10%. I am just happy that he is trying to learn. The first year he refused to try. As a dear friend told me, that was his silent year. Which is common in some adopted children. He is doing very well in school. Whatever they do, the wear him out. He comes home hungry and exhausted. I haven't figured out how an easy way to make it through the day. He is use to getting a nap in the afternoon, but now he is at school during that time.
Okay, the pictures I am about to post are of his first day of school. He is waiting for the bus to come and pick him up. The hair cut, well that is due to grandpa Akers. That is what we get for leaving him alone with grandpa! Don't worry the hair cut only lasted 2 weeks.