Happy Birthday baby! This was an unbelievable day.  Unbelievable.  Just unbelievable. You are nothing short of amazing. Really. Your 2nd birthday party was a disaster, so I did not have high hopes that this was going to go well.  No one really knows of the difficulties we’ve been going through, so we really didn’t know […]

Nicholas is doing well.  He turned to engage in an activity and is demonstrating simple turn-taking skills.  He appropriately uses the words, push, pull, help.  The word help is becoming cleaner.

Last Session with Nicholas as he ages out in a couple of days.  Worked on social exchange, used social games and play to get Nicholas to make initiation for social exchange.  Nicholas has made such tremendous gains in this area.  He shows appropriate feelings and reactions to games as well as intitiates spontaneous eye contact.  […]

Final Visit: Nicholas was great.  He enjoyed looking at the rain, feeling the water from the rain.  He said “open up” “jui” for juice, no, “nes” for yes, water, “ou” for out, “bu” for blue.  Tried to say “ca” for cat, purple, moo-oo.  He was able to reorganize himself when he did not get his […]

I’ll add to this list as I remember more, but I’m mainly posting this for anyone who comes across this website and has worries about their child.  All children are different and these are not meant to be markers for a diagnosis of any kind – but hindsight is 20/20 and these are some things we should […]

From 1 – 2 years of age is where I really started to worry, but the doctors kept reassuring me that everything was fine.  Nicholas was never into books, bedtime stories, etc.  He was still not pointing or really waving.  He did not care if anyone left the house, the room, the planet for that […]

Birth: HepB, Vitamin K and Eye antibiotics 2.5 months: prevnar 1 & hib 1  3 months: pediarix 1  4.5 months: prevnar 2 and hib2  6 months: Pediarix 2 7 months: prevnar 3 & Hib 3 8.5 months: pediarix 3 12 months: flu shot 18 months: dtap 4 & MMR1 21 months: prevnar 4 & hib4

PSA to any pediatricians out there….   This statement gives parents of boys false hope that their sons don’t have any developmental delays.  Like any statement, it can be true some times and not others.  If a child does have delays, you’ve just been very successful in wasting precious time that the child could have received Early Intervention. […]

He never started pointing or waving hello/goodbye.  We tried to get him to say hi and bye – and he never caught on.  I was not worried at this point because everyone said it was a boy thing to talk later.  He always played really well by himself – and not knowing any better at […]

At 6 months, we started introducing baby foods in addition to his formula.  He loved all kinds of foods, applesauce, rice cereal, peas, barley cereal and peaches.  He was drinking from and holding a sippy cup at 6 months.  He stared pushing up at 7 months, said “dada” for the first time at 7 months.  […]