Some good news, and some bad news

So, Ben had his OT and speech re-evaluation today. He aced it! :) The OT gave us some suggestions to work on him getting food in to his mouth, but she said she has him at a 10 mth level and if he isn't self-feeding by 1 year, we should call her back. She thinks he will be, though. The speech therapist also evaluated him and said he is at almost a 10 mth level for her as well. It was funny, when they rang the doorbell, I sat him down next to the couch. In that few seconds, he pulled up to stand, on the couch. I was telling them how well he is doing with his PT. They walked in and saw him and said, "he certainly is, isn't he!" He heard the voices, got excited, let go of the couch and went down. He seems to think he can walk even though he barely learned to stand. :)

Klara was here during the eval as well. She was trying to help him with things. I had to give her the iPad so that she would be distracted. When the therapists left, she asked me, "why didn't you tell them he says 'babababa'?"She also really wanted the therapists to play with her too. She kept showing everything she was doing on the iPad. One of the games she was playing as Monkey Match, where she had to find matching rhyming pictures. I, and the therapists were impressed with how many rhyming words she knew.

In related, disappointing news, we have had our first party that we are unable to attend due to Ben. Well, there were other events that we have been unable to attend, but they were events that were easily rearranged or we did something similar another day. This is a friend of ours son's 1st birthday. So, obviously something that can not be moved. We were VERY grateful they told us beforehand that their kids came down with minor colds, so that we could decide if we wanted to go. Our girls LOVE their daughter. They are best friends and we knew it would be next to impossible to keep them apart. And, if they got the colds, Ben would , no doubt, get a cold as well. And, since he is JUST getting over his GI bug, I didn't want to add a respiratory infection on top of that. Especially since his last cold he got turned in to bronchiolitis. His immune system is so suppressed, I don't think he would be able to handle just getting over the GI bug and then getting bronchiolitis too. We are sad we can't see their son celebrate his 1st birthday though. But, we can always do something fun with them once everyone is sickness free.

Speaking of parties, the girls party is next Saturday. They are really excited about it, and they don't even know all that it entails. We are having something similar to Build-a-Bear come here. They will get to stuff bears and dress them and get an adoption certificate with the bear's name on it. We are hoping their friends will be healthy enough to come too. We planned a joint party for them this year, in September, because Ben's first birthday is going to be a big party and we didn't want to have another big party in August and then a big party for Klara in October and then Ben's big party in November. Probably next year we will start combining Ben and Klara's party and having both of them have a Halloween party. We're not sure yet, but that seems the most logical since Ben and Klara's birthday's are 2 weeks apart.