Snow Day

We are having some ridiculously wintry weather, but Little Man has been in seventh heaven playing in the snow all day. It's melting like crazy and everything is super wet, but he's been out there continuously except for potty breaks and food. Little Miss likes it almost as much, but she's been drinking so much prune juice she has to come in and sit more often and get bathed frequently. She's been doing quite a job on the potty today and to be honest, so has he. Even though there are a hundreds of accidents every day, having them sit at the same times every day is starting to work the teeniest bit. Each day they do a little more than the day before. Yesterday there was a serious melt down over having to go potty, but today they've endured it without too much fanfare, in fact we have not had any unacceptable behaviors today, but the day is not over :-)

Little Guy has a strange food texture issue. He is starting to venture forth and take a bite of this and that - things were once on the "I like that, NO!" list, but he is such a gagger! He will eat a banana now, but lots of things that he likes the taste of makes him puke at the table. He doesn't chew anything very much. He looks as though it hurts to chew he does it so gingerly, but then he walks gingerly like he's peed his pants even when he is dry. He can't eat lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, apple, lentils, scrambled tofu, etc.... Is this weird or what?? Half his teeth have fallen out and the ones he has are half in and spaced far apart.

Yes, they talk funny. "I like that, NO, or I want that, NO!" is about the funniest. She says " I hava-hava" and it means I want to have that. "Me no have turn", is pretty cute. Mostly they leave out unnecessary words but occasionally turn sentences around. There are many sounds she can't make because of her cleft lip. I'm curious about how things will go at speech therapy next week. I need tools. They talk all the time and we are constantly teaching them new words, but I don't know what I am doing and I need concrete ideas.

PS. The day is officially over for the kiddos and we made it all day without a single outburst! No screaming, fussing, or any other unacceptable behaviors ALL DAY! Yahoo! Thank you LORD!