Fun Week

Ayden Jane is on a great spurt right now. She has just had a terrific week and is so stinkin' funny. Don't get me wrong, she is still frustrating and can move at a snails pace at times but her energy level right now is at an all time high.

Some of the high lights: At horses on Tueday, Jen came for her monthly visit and Ayden Jane was out to impress. She loved showing Jen some of the 'tricks' we had been working on. Her favorite is to hold onto the 'handles' (circyncle?) with her hands, have her feet on the back of the horse and put her butt way up into the air. She gets tired in her shoulders and squats for a bit and then butts up again. This Tue. she asked Jen if she could fly. Jen had her in high kneel on the horse and the first time she held onto our hands up high. She yelled to Jen to come back and let her fly again with no hands. We did not really think she could do it... we were wrong. She was in high kneel, hands up high with us with a hand on each calf. Ayden Jane was grinning from ear to ear yelling, "look! I flyin', I flyin! She was so wired after that she was going strong at Noah's soccer game.

At the game, there was a little girl P who is about 1 1/2 or so. Ayden Jane was hilarious with her. At first she didn't know what to do with her. She couldn't figure out why she didn't talk and why she wasn't fast. After a few minutes AJ totally took the lead and kept telling her, come on P, run fast.... climb up high like me... You would think after all this from 5-8 or so AJ would have been pooped and gone right to sleep.

I sent AJ back to the bedroom to get ready for bed. This includes getting undressed, going potty, putting on her pull up and bringing me her toothbrush and tooth paste. Pretty impressive, but that's the good part of having a child who is ridiculously independent. Follow her and she will tell you, "go away, I do it myself!" Anyway, she came out as usual and grinned, "I put my pull up on, wanna see?" I said sure and she lifted up her shirt and showed me her nakey bumper! She thought she was the funniest thing on the planet and would have to agree it was darn cute!

Yep, that was ALL Tues.

It is Friday today and Thurs. and Friday could be there own posts. As this physical spurt has come together for her, her language has had some gains and losses. Gains in vocabulary and SPEED. The loss is in others understanding her. I am translating for her a LOT these days. Jen was even having trouble understanding her on Wed. We talked about it and we decided that Ayden Jane is talking so much faster (which is a plus) and using lots of new words that it is harder to catch what she is saying. She still has lots of articulation errors so now people who are not used to her speech just really don't have time to sort it out. I will take is a plus though! (and keep working the articulation)