Day 2 - Bradon

Day 2:

Blogging every day is going to be difficult.  Not that we don’t have plenty to talk about, but more about finding time to do it. 

Today’s blog will be about Bradon. 

The middle child and are only boy tends to get left in the dust of his sisters.  Not that he isn’t getting attention – he just is at an awkward age right now.  He’s too young for all the activities his older sister is in and is too old to really enjoy the things Alana does.  He is about blocks, legos, turtles, cars, and toy story. 

He is such a boy – climbing, rough housing, and getting into pretty much everything.   His favorite line is “hey mom, watch this!”  I saw an e-card the other day that said that phrase is to a child what “hold my beer” is to an adult.  It holds pretty accurate in the case of Bradon. 

He has officially been talking for 1 year 1 month.  It is hard to think about, this time last year he had only a couple of words to his vocabulary.  This year he is going a mile a minute.  He is still struggling with a few consonant sounds – c/ch/t/f/p.  However, his speech therapist along with others say those take time to develop. Considering he has only been talking a short while, these will hopefully begin to take form over the next year.  If not then we will look at placing him into speech therapy.   He will be 4 in February, and we will know before school starts what if anything that we need to do. 

The cause for his delayed speech was the numerous ear infections.  He will have had his ear tubes for 1 year in December.  He has still gotten several ear infections with the ear tubes, strep, and even a case of croup.   The doctor had considered the possibility of taking his tonsils out, if or when he gets another set of tubes.  We meet the ENT in December to do a 1 year check and also to discuss how we move forward.  None of us want these issues to restrict or relapse his speech any further. 

That’s pretty much all that’s going on with Bradon.  He’s getting excited for Christmas and has started going through all the toy magazines.  This morning he said he wanted a nerf gun.  Neither Matt or I see any good coming from the Nerf Zombie Strike.  I guess we will have to see what Santa thinks.