Is just amazing how a year flows by!
Zachary is a blessing in our lives. I have seen my two older children love on him like you wouldn't believe. The girls are compassionate and try to understand everything he tries to talk to them since Zachary has Speech Delay.
When you have two older children who develop "normal" as people can say and all of a sudden you have this little bundle of joy that tries his earnest to articulate his words and you still have a faint idea of what he is trying to say... is just hard at first to get used to.
Zachary is a blessing in our lives. I have seen my two older children love on him like you wouldn't believe. The girls are compassionate and try to understand everything he tries to talk to them since Zachary has Speech Delay.
When you have two older children who develop "normal" as people can say and all of a sudden you have this little bundle of joy that tries his earnest to articulate his words and you still have a faint idea of what he is trying to say... is just hard at first to get used to.
Just after his second birthday I took Zachary to a speech therapy where he got diagnosed. When the therapist told us that he needed speech therapy I was grateful that we can do something for him so he can have a better quality of life. The sad thing was that the therapy was going to be very expensive and we could not afford it.
Fortunately, the therapist (God bless her) told us about a federal program that your income is not required to receive services. That program in Florida is called "Early Steps", it helps children until they reach their third birthday in different services like speech delay and occupational therapy.
After being refereed to the program and gone through their different interviews, we finally got a speech therapist. She came to our house and she sat on the floor with Zachary, he only spoke 5 words.
The speech therapist was nice to him and eventually after 5 months into the therapies Zachary was able to say around 40 words. He increased his vocabulary a lot.
Another factor that has helped him a lot was his love for the Wow! Wow! Wubbzy Show. Zachary would stare at the show and my prayer was that he was able to be brave and say words that he has heard from the show. So besides learning the name of the character Wubbzy, his next word from the show was; " I am Sorry". Amazing how he understood what sorry was. Zachary amazes me more and more!
So now my new challenge will be potty training! I am looking forward to it. I heard so many times that boys take a little longer to be potty trained. I guess I just have to pace myself and be patient.
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