Jamie words

Jamie's annual evaluation with his therapists is this Friday, so his words are much on my mind. He is improving, slowly. I was trying to come up with how many words he has that he can use - I think it's more than a dozen but less than 20. Not all of them get used frequently.

A couple of exciting ones happened recently. Saturday we were playing a CD, and Maggie was dancing, some by herself, some with the adults, some with Jamie. She'd ask him to dance, and they would. Then I heard him say "dance!"

He loves to play with the boffer swords selenite and rlseiver made for them at Christmas. Twice this week I'm pretty sure he said "sword" while asking to play.

The most moving one was last night. I was feeling headachy and unwell, and selenite was about to take Jamie upstairs to put him to bed, and brought him over to me on the couch to say goodnight first. I held him and he cuddled up and we were saying "night-night" (From Jamie, "ni-ni"), and I said "I love you". I heard back something that sounded an awful lot like "I love you" in return. At least it had the 'music' of the phrase right. That's the first time he's said that. It made me cry. I love my Jamie-boy.

frustrations and distractions

I'm thinking further on why I did *not* like the book Rainbows End by Vinge. (I did finally finish it.)

One of the protagonists used to write, but now that he's 'back' in health, he discovers that he's living in a world of constant input and distractions. And he can't write any more. (although it's implied that something has gone wrong in him to cause this)

I live in a world of constant input and distractions. And I can't write anymore, not anything worth writing. And it frustrates me.

At the moment, I'm finding even craft plans for VBS hard to get together over kid noise.