Holidays and such

Halloween weekend was a blast, we enjoyed good friends in town, a trip out to the beach, a fall festival, and trick or treating. Aidan had it down pat, she would walk behind Ty up to the door and yell "trick or treat". One of Ty's favorite parts was after we got back home he sat with daddy at the end of the drive way giving out more candy and talking to all the kids. Last week we drove over to my mom and dad's where Ty had a meeting with a former colleague of my fathers who has her doctorate in speech pathology. Ty has been having some trouble with stammering so we wanted to have him see her and get her opinion. She asked my father if he would talk with her or if he would be shy. My dad just chuckled and replied, I think he will be fine talking. We went into her office and he immediately began sharing with her his list he has made for Santa (which is so cute, he cut out pictures from a cataloge and pasted on a sheet of paper). We were relieved when, after their meeting, she is very positive that some excercises, some of which we have already been applying, should take him out of his stammering. He doesn't enjoy being slowed down when he is talking but is doing better already. He always has a lot to say, so we are assuring him that no matter how much he has to say we are listening to everything and he can slow down. Aidan and Ty are getting to spend a few days now with Nana and Papa until Thanksgiving. They are both having a blast. When we skype at night Aidan sits still and seems that she could talk to us all night while Ty talks as he is running back and forth. Chad and I have been using this time to do our Christmas shopping. It's amazing how a 3 year old knows to ask for the hot toy of 2010. Luckly we found a few on the shelf at the store. Maybe we will actually get all the xmas shopping done before December, that would be amazing.