If I’d not gotten induced with Lucy four years ago, and if she’d gestated as long as Molly, she’d be a November baby. But I did, and she didn’t, so Happy Birthday, Lucy! Sorry I made you come out so early (and so small, just seven pounds and five ounces — so, not really small, just small for our family). Hope the seventeen months of breastfeeding (which you are obsessed with making sure the baby gets enough of) made it up to you!
I’m calling today to schedule a speech assessment for you. Grandpa asked me, again, if I was concerned about your language abilities. It doesn’t bother me that you can’t say your “k”s or “g”s yet; I think it’s kind of cute, and your vocabulary and comprehension are just fine. I’m pretty sure the therapist will tell me either A) There’s nothing wrong, why are you so paranoid? or B) This kid has serious problems, why didn’t you call us two years ago?
Now if they could do something about your helium-infused muchkin accent . . .
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Happy birthday! LOVE those beautiful, blue eyes!
Happy 4th!
Happy birthday to your sweet Lucy! She and I share a birthday.
Gorgeous girl!
(How on earth do you get her hair so *neat*??)
She is growing into such a beautiful girl. Maybe I just have a weakness for red hair and blue eyes.
My first daughter was bright, surrounded by adults, had a large vocabulary, spoke in complete sentences, and mispronounced several consonants, like g, t, r and d. They gave her speech therapy in kindergarten and up until about 3rd grade, until she mastered all of them. I think that, in general, more schools pay attention to these kinds of things, because helping kids with problems in the early grades keeps the kids from becoming overly self-conscious and hating school, and gives the bullies in middle school less fodder for harassment of their classmates. I think bright kids sometimes are so eager to keep up with others, especially older siblings, that they skip over the mechanics of pronouncing all the sounds of the alphabet.
Happy Birthday sweet Lucy. She’s beautiful Shannon – absolutely beautiful! And as for her speech – yeah, I wouldn’t worry about it. Max is 5 and he still can’t pronounce certain letters. No biggie.