Speech: Week 3

Prince has been going to speech for 3 weeks now. The lady is wonderful. She has a lot of patience with him. I have decided to document his journey to talking in my blog. I do not want to come across as the pushy type to get my son to blab. I understand that once he is able to communicate to the world it might never stop. I am aware that one day I could be cursing myself because he will not hush up. I know these things. At this point they are all worth it to stop his frustration of life. He has a rough time communicating with others, kids his age and adults. As any parent would, I want my son to be normal and able to play with other kids without the worry of getting sued because be bit someone. why do I fear this? Prince has done it before! He has bitten his sister and other kids he plays with because he doesn't choose to use his words or he will say them at the wrong time.
Prince is a very smart child. He just doesn't talk for whatever reason. I have had 2 people that were testing him (speech & pt) tell me that they do not think he is autistic and it is just a speech issue. That is what I hope for. There are days where I wonder if he could be in the spectrum. He has great days and bad days.

So on with the speech. It is very hard for me to be in there with him because he gets so frustrated and wants me to fix everything. He learns and does better once I leave. Some days I will stay and others I will head home. Living only 3 minutes away this is nice since SD goes on workups soon.

We are going to try to start him twice a week so he can have more time with the speech teacher. I really think it will be beneficial to him, the speech teacher agreed.

This week my homework was to talk a lot around him. He needs to hear me talk and what I say. So that I will do. Prince, can say some words. The catch, when you tell him to! He will not use them on his own. He only says the first part. He doesn't finish a word.

On with our journey. I hope that if you read this with the same issues that I have i can be of some help.

Two New Year's coming up

Well as we get closer to the end of the year we are facing a new year. I have already started to think about a new year resolution and my hopes for the coming year. As the 2009 year comes upon us I face another new year. Since my children are half Vietnamese we also celebrate the traditions that my husband grew up celebrating. It is important that they are aware of where they come from and what makes them. As grandparents with stories get older I feel that things might be left out. I want them to be proud of who they are and understand at least half of what it took for their father to come to America and have a better life. That being said.

Tet is the Vietnamese new year. It is celebrated by dragon dances, family, food and great fun.

I am debating on making Brianna's outfit so she has a new one for her to wear this year. I can't wait to celebrate this year. It is so much fun for the kids!!! This is Ethan's first year of being able to have fun and understand!

Menu Planning Monday

Menu for Dec 1st- December 7th

Monday Dec 1st

beef stew with Rice

Tuesday Dec 2nd
Salad

Wednesday Dec 4th
Potato soup

Dec 4th
Our Christmas party, I am not sure what we are eating yet!!!
Kids and the sitter are having pizza for Dinner

Dec 5th
out with the kids

Dec 6th
Baked Chicken
butter carrots
scalloped potatoes

Dec 7th
Pho

*UPDATE*

On Tuesday Prince has speech so that night is hard for us when it comes to dinner. I had to shift some things. Everything will be scattered this week.

Sewing: Felt Crown

I found this crown over at Juicy Bits and I just knew I could make it! The only thing is that she uses 100% wool but I was not able to find bright colors in that fabric. Instead, I bought regular felt and got stronger interfacing.
This is for my friends daughter who turns 3! I am so excited. I have a lot of work do learn on sewing and keeping a steady hand but I think this looks okay!

Tip: Boiled eggs

Last night I was making the boiled eggs for today. Living in a rented condo you have to take short cuts.

It is best to let the eggs sit in cold water with ice in it to get the egg shells off better. Well I have 2 ice trays. I did not want to run out of ice for anything just in case. Looking in my freezer I found plastic ice cubes, mine are in the shape of flowers.

I put some water in the bowl added those and there you have it! Perfect eggs.

Not everyone has these laying around. I purchased mine at Wal-Mart in the summer for the kids

I have a secret

I have never made Thanksgiving dinner all by myself

Until this year that is!!!

I started to prepare last night. I made deviled eggs, shredded the cheese for the cornbread and diced up the potatoes for mashed. Score! I was not running behind.

This morning I woke up and started the rice for breakfast. Weird, I know. Rice is a important thing in our house sine the other 3 people here are Asian. The rice goes to a high cholesterol sausage that SD and the monsters really like. (I could have sworn I have blogged about it but I can't find it) Its rice with butter, hillshire farm sausage with syrup all over it. The syrup is fried with the sausage. I do not eat this. THEY do! After that was done I started the little smokies.

Then came the challenge!! The turkey. My mother calls her's Fred. I will leave that for her. I put lots of butter garlic parsley onion and have had it in the oven. Should be done in about 2 hours or so.

I made cream cheese wonton with crab and onion. The family loves these. They are so simple yet time consuming because you have to mix all the things together, make soft and then fold into the wrappers.

You know something is bound to happen to someone one's Thanksgiving. Something will go wrong usually. My dang turkey baster broke! It cracked down the side. I repaired it with some Peel & Seal and it was good to go. Also I lost a beater to my mixer but that's okay.
My Thanksgiving dinner was great! My turkey was good and everything else was perfect!
I am truly thankful that I was able to pull this off.

Times of the year like this when I am supposed to be near family really make me think.
My Granny and Dad have both been through cancer in the last year. I am thankful that they are here today with me.
I am thankful that my husband was not deployed, He was able to be here with us.
I am thankful for my kid's health


I am thankful for so many things. I can't name them all I would flood this page with thanks.


Hope you all had a wonderful meal and we able to be with the ones you love!

Tag, You're it!

The sneaky Storm over at Confessions of a Psychotic Housewife tagged me! So I will join in on the fun!!

ule #1 ~ Link to the person that tagged you.
Rule #2 ~ Post the rules on your Blog.
Rule #3 ~ Write 6 random things about yourself.
Rule #4 ~ Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
Rule #5 ~ Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their Blog.
Rule #6 ~ Let the tagger know your entry is up.


1- I can not stand to fold clothes! I hate it!
2- I have to be cold when I sleep. I can't sleep hot
3- I used to love to drive until I had kids, Now it scares me
4- I have always been a crafty person. I sometimes express it weird
4- I am cheap!
5- I would eat Chinese Food all day every day if I could
6- I do not like to talk on the phone. I would rather text!


I really do not have people to tag that I read off of. They are mostly large blogs that get a lot more traffic than little ol me.