What a difference the past 6 weeks have made. Luke is saying a lot of words – like A LOT. He can pretty much say his ABCs, granted not many would understand but it’s huge. Poop. Pelican. Gummy. Sucker. He’s really trying! ABA has been focusing mainly on verbal, and the goal is just to get him to make sounds. He just needs the confidence to know he can speak….and he’s begun. The more verbal he is, the more clear it is that he has apraxia. He says road block “rah-jahk” so the speech therapy will be for years but so what. He CAN talk.

His 6 month follow up with the developmental pediatrician was a couple of weeks ago. She couldn’t believe the progress he made. Any thoughts of him being on the spectrum are vanishing, she said he appears to be falling off the spectrum. His sleep is still terrible, she recommended a sleep med which we are literally at our last resort and may just do it. 3 doctors now have recommended it. I hate that it’s come to this but the dude just doesn’t sleep. Sleep is important. Imagine how much more he’ll blossom if he sleeps. You owe it to him. You owe it to yourselves. You’d give him medicine if he was having seizures, right? Being a parent and having to make decisions like this is so painful. I couldn’t imagine the parents of kids with severe illnesses. Heartbreaking.

Little sis is awesome, they hug and dance together now. She repeats everything and loves her baby dolls. It’s so funny to see the difference between a boy and girl. Some day she’ll be convincing her friends to date (or not date) Luke.