Nigh nigh Mommy

Corinne just pushed me into Evan's room, pointed at the bed and said "Nigh nigh!" When I tried to leave the room, she pushed me back in and said very sternly "NIGH NIGH Mommy!!"

Gift horse, indeed. So I laid down and she closed the door. 

Then she came back in a few minutes later with a book to read to me. In gibberish....animated gibberish...she read me the book, pausing occasionally to turn the book around so I could see the pictures. 

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Farm Easter Egg Hunt

To celebrate the kids getting over the funk:

And the laundry being (mostly) done, thanks to Grandma (and Evan):

We went to a local Easter Egg hunt at a farm. We brought a pizza lunch:

Combined with whatever else I had lying around in the diaper bag:

Then the Easter Egg hunt was set to begin. Corinne thought the basket made an excellent necklace:

When the bigger kids invaded the "under 3" section and stole all the eggs, she wasn't impressed:

But she got the hang of hunting for the eggs very quickly (and learned a new word: egg). She was calling out for the eggs as she searched "Ho, egg? Ho egg?" I guess, expecting the eggs to jump out of the grass if she called loud enough.

Evan and Grandma looked on from the other side of the fence:

Corinne wanted to show Evan her eggs, so she gave him her basket:

Then we went over to the petting zoo area. Corinne chased a bunny around (finally caught him), held a baby duck, and a baby goat. She really wanted to feed the goats, so she picked up some dirt and started offering it to the goats. None took her up on her offer. 

Finally, we went on a tractor ride. Evan was more interested in the lemonade slushie than the cows we saw.

Early intervention

We had our 3y evaluation with the school district this morning. She was evaluated by a psychologist, PT, OT, and ST. 

The AW part: they were impressed that a kid with her birthweight and formally in PT/OT for low tone, scored as high as she did on gross motor. She was doing some stuff at a 4y old level, like walking on a balance beam and kickibg a ball off the end of it. Everything else (fine motor, social-emotional, cognitive) was age appropriate  except speech, which was the reason we were there. Cognitive was in the 90s, and they explained that once speech increases, cognitive score will go up. The other categories were above 110. 

Cut off for speech was 85. She scored a 79. Her receptive language was age appropriate (hence the higher language score), but expressive brought it down. So next month we have our first meeting with the ST that she'll be seeing at the local elem school. However her 3rd bday is like 2w before school breaks for the summer, so she won't actually truly begin ST until school is back in session in August. I think she'll get more out of ST this time as she's more interactive with strangers and more interested in trying to talk/imitate/make oral sounds. 

So that's where we're at. I'm feeling good about it.