The big change at home is that my elderly parents have moved in, which is great for Jai! New friendly faces, new voices to listen to, new legs to pull himself up with.

Jai's doing a lot of cruising and pulling himself up to standing, which is great. Spending a lot of time exploring textures.. pine bark, sand, different carpets, metal grills to roll cars on... He enjoys playing outside on our balcony, but if left alone, he makes his way to the fish pond and splashes the water. Fun for him, not so much for the fish!

Communication seems to have hit a roadblock. He asks for one song by putting his hands out to me.. Row, row the boat. And he seems happy that I understand. He's showing affection by coming up to us and laying his head sideways on our shoulder or arm, which is beautiful. Laughing a lot as always. But now starting to get upset when we don't understand what he wants or needs, starting to throw tantrums sometimes. I'm not sure the speech therapy is actually doing much, except getting us both frustrated. I started reading a book about a girl with PMG, called Schulyer's (pronounced "Skyler") monster, which is making me feel somewhat better, because Schulyer also had little effect from her early speech interventions, but she grew up great, few words, but able to communicate and go to school! Fingers crossed for Jai!

We've started going to the library occasionally for story time. Jai doesn't love being surrounded by kids and song, but he tolerates it. He seems to prefer fairly quiet spaces. He loves swimming, even in our neighbourhood pool. And he is about to start going to a wonderful, spacious and friendly daycare 2 days a week... nervous times for me, i hope he won't be too anxious. Could be great for him to have some kids he can get to know.