Speech with Austin & Misc

The camera re-appeared!! Aaron put it in Meghan's diaper bag (much better than the diaper pail where he put the video camera).

Aaron was tired and easily distracted at speech tonight. He'd had a short nap and a bad fall that scraped up his face. Austin read a Sesame Street Book and looked at picture cards with Aaron. He's definitely saying "eye" and when she showed him a picture of a flower he ran to it and blew on the card. Funny because that's what we tell him to do instead of pick flowers.

Aaron was most excited about Zachariah so he was the focus of the speech session for about 10 minutes. He still pets the baby's head and coos and him -- the big change is that Zachariah smiles and coos back! We touched all of the baby's facial features, and played with his toes and fingers, and patted his knees. Aaron was a little teary when Zachariah had to leave, but very enthusiastic about waving bye-bye and blowing kisses. I didn't know that Meghan had taught him to blow kisses, and it's unbearably sweet.

He fussed and fumed and disrupted everyone at dinner before Rich figured out that he was asking us to take him downstairs to bed. It's much more peaceful now, although Luke is tired and overly emotional tonight too.

Rich and I went to a training on sexual abuse at St. Joe's this morning and it was great because we really just talked with Beth about potential issues and questions we had about raising Raha. She's wonderful because she's very earthy and warm, and has raised several adoptive children. I'm going to miss talking to her every week when we're done with classes. In the afternoon Rich and I took a PD session on MovieMaker -- great fun! I'm excited to use the fiction/non-fiction books I scan then use in math class. I'm going to set them to music and add narration, plus use the nice transitions between slides.