CoNgRaTulAtIoNs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When Jaxon was 2 years old (well before he was 2) I noticed that he only said 3 words - at that age on average a child should be able to say 20 - 50 or some big number like that.

Since then he has been in speech therapy - minus one year that I felt was a waste so we stopped taking him, the place was 20 min away the traffic to get their was terrible and the teacher was not all that impressive and only made him work on him speech if he felt like it (waste of time!)

when he started Kinder last year he got the most amazing speech teacher. She was able to get him into the Scottish Right House ( the place developed by the monks:) - we were told that if we continued with the therapy as aggressively has we had been that by the time he was in 4th grade he should be caught up. At first I was so sad that it would take that long - but when I look back for me 4th grade was so very long ago, so

I knew it would be fine:)

He graduated at the center at the end of the summer because of how well he had progressed - His first grade teacher was unaware of any speech issues and was kind of shocked that he was on the speech list:)

He graduated from speech last week - he is all caught up! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and they said 4th grade, he only need until 1st - he is amazing

I did it:)

So, you wonder what it is that i did - Well, I sewed up the face of Jaxons stuffed animal:) ME! I did it all by my self. Now I know some of you are thinking that this in not really a big deal - but trust me, for me it is:)

Jaxon was given his bear "Budge" from Grandma Rozzy on the day that he was born (sorry no pictures of it from then). He has since loved his bear and takes it almost everywhere with him:)

- this is the best picture of Budge that I could find.

A few years ago Budge had a slight accident and was drop from the couch on to the floor at my parents house (in the mid of the night). Their dog thought that meant Budge was a toy for him and kinda tore his face a bit. Uncle Bryan felt really bad about this a attempted to sew his face back on:) he did an ok job - it held for like 2 years (the thread was blue). The other night the sewing job my brother had givin the bear decided that it had fulfilled its job and was time to give it up - so the holes came back. This made Jax very sad and so I decided to try and "fix" it. I got my little dollar store sewing kit (that I had never used) and for the first time since I was like 5 I threaded a needle. I sewed up his face:) It is not the most beautiful job - But now Jax has his budge back and is happy that mom fixed it:)

You just will have to imagine the before picture - his nose was straight.