"Bubbles"

We have witnessed Evan saying the word "bubbles". Of course, when we try to get him on camera doing it, he won't say it...:-)



Evan had a home visit today with Carol and Mandy from the Blake Foundation. Mandy is an occupational therapist and she will hopefully help with Evan's eating issues. Today was just answering a lot of questions for her to start her case report. She was happy to see that Evan can drink out of a regular cup (with a lot of help from us holding it). She and Carol both gave us some more tips to use to try to get Evan to eat more. He's falling back into his old pattern of not eating a whole lot. He did eat a lot of lunch today (tomato soup and grilled cheese), but barely any dinner for us again. Mandy is planning on visiting him at daycare within the week to do another observation.

First "Therapy" Session

Evan's first daycare meeting with Elizabeth and Carol was today. Elizabeth is Evan's case worker (so to speak) through the Blake Foundation which is part of the Arizona Early Intervention Program (AzEIP). They observed him during breakfast time so Carol (who is a speech therapist) can see how he eats and interacts during the mealtime. Of course Evan barely ate anything (they were served biscuits and bananas) so they saw a typical morning for him. He interacted well with the rest of the class (like he usually does).

The next visit will be next Monday at our house so they can work with him in our home environment. They also want us to put objects close to our mouths when we say the names for them so Evan can see how we are forming the words.