Logan has now been in therapy full time for about two weeks. I am amazed at the improvement. It may seem small to some but for us it is HUGE. In December "Help me" and "I don't know" were introduced. He has almost mastered the sentences using them with little prompting and for the most part in the right context. We are now at a point when he is using the sentences that we will wait for eye contact. He may repeat help me 4 or 5 times but eventually he makes eye contact then we help him. He gets confused with "Help Me" and "Help You". He hears us say "Help you?" then he repeats. He has gotten much better at it and mostly says "Help Me?" now. Ruby thinks this is great as she can get in her sibling teasing by not acknowledging Logan or helping him until he looks at her but contrary to typical siblings we allow it...lol. Along with the new demands have come some major tantrums as he just does not understand but we were told it would get worse before it gets better.
With January came our annual skate with the Hitmen at the Saddledome. This yearthough we actually took part. We told Ruby that we could not go until she could skate. In October we enrolled her in Learn to Skate and with the sole determination to skate with the Hitmen she has excelled. We even took Logan on his skates. It was amazing he actually did it. His first time on skates and he walked a bit on the ice on his own and when he fell down he got up on his own (which is one of the first things that is taught in the learn to skate). The kids met all the Hitmen in person and got their autographs on Ruby's Hitmen hat. The kids favorite player was playing on Team Canada (Martin Jones) but they did not seem to notice. It was a great night. Canada's loss to USA on Logan's birthday did not go over well in our household it was the first time Canada did not win Gold in the kids lifetimes.
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