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Leo called it 😂 he’s said it’s a baby brother since we told him.

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For the like 2 people who will see this, I finally had my confirmation appointment (at 12w5d 🫠) but everything looked good! Heartbeat of 167. August 14 due date (but I don’t think I’ll actually go that long). I’m doing the genetic screening next week so we’ll find out the sex pretty soon.

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My favorite “my 4yo reads like crazy” story to explain how wild it is.

In September, we were in a Buccees bathroom in south Alabama, on our way to the beach. And then he points to a handicap stall sign and says, “Mama, that says accessible.” It did. And I’d never read that word to him before.

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Me: history of infertility, needed meds to conceive

Me 5 years later apparently: FIRST TRY????

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Being the parent to a kid with an IEP is exhausting.

Like what do you mean you wrote something into a literal legal document that may or may not be accurate 🫠

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When someone you’ve known online for 10+ years (and has a kid your kid’s age) is in your general area and you internally debate how weird it would be to reach out 😩

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I’m by no means an IEP law expert, but I’m pretty sure my kid’s school did a whole bunch of ~mildly~ illegal things. Stuff that most parents probably wouldn’t even clock, but I know enough to recognize that it’s sketchy at best. And they’re nice enough people who seem to mean well, but it’s also a pattern I’ve noticed in this district.

But if the county preschool director has no haters, I’m dead.

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Teaching SpEd and then having a kid with disabilities is… an experience. I’ve been on the other side of the table so I’m super nice, but I also know my rights and how to play the game. I have a meeting today and I’ve backed them into a corner on getting him OT (that he needs! And should qualify for! But historically will score like 1 point off) where they basically have to qualify him, but my anxiety is through the roof about it.

And then he’s 2E (gifted also) but good luck getting on-level reading instruction for my 4yo that reads on a 1st grade level (? Ish?? It’s skyrocketing every day, I can’t keep up) in general but also at a Title 1 school where even the Assistant Principal says she’s never seen it before.

Yes, I will be a bundle of anxiety until 1pm, thanks 🙃

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Me: brushing up on IEP law, ready to fight my kid’s school over OT (while being super polite!) in a meeting they asked for

Also me: having Anxiety about somehow getting in trouble at said meeting

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31 sight words 😅

Probably more because the font on the test I quickly grabbed from the internet was a little funky and he’d say, like, now for how. And he kept getting distracted (we took breaks) because he’s, ya know, not even 4 yet. Plus there’s a bunch of words he knows that aren’t sight words like zoo, school, love, and his bestie’s name, among others.

So ballpark, 40-50 words. I bought a phonics ~homeschool~ book for $6 secondhand that’ll be here in a few days so we can start on that this summer and I’m making sight word flash cards because this kid loves “playing reading games”. My “goal” (that sounds a little forced, but you get the idea) is for him to have CVC words down before school starts. I’m not pushing anything, but he really is interested, so I’m just gonna ride that wave and see where we get.

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Y’all ever seen a 3yo with a speech delay that can READ? It’s as weird as it sounds.

Gonna spend the summer teaching him ~correctly~ (decoding) since currently it seems like he memorizes words (which is how I learned so it tracks)

BUT STILL. READING. SENTENCES.

And when I literally have his yearly IEP meeting next week.

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IEP meetings for your not-even-3 year old are hard. Even when you know exactly what to expect because you’ve done it before from the school side, and you accurately predicted the outcome.

But that’s my baby.

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The weirdest parenting dilemma I never expected to have:

2.5yo knows all of his letters and some of his letter sounds. Clearly interested in reading.

Aaand he’s speech delayed.

I can teach a kid to read but not if he can’t talk 🥴 but I also want to foster the interest somehow (aside from reading to him)

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Apparently I haven’t changed my bio in 4 years 😂

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This child of mine was on 2 naps almost until his second birthday and now he’s not even 2.5 and he’s refused naps for FOUR DAYS.

WHY.

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Honestly impressed with how quickly early intervention got through this whole speech process.

I called on October 15, a Friday, at like 3pm (so that day and the weekend don’t even really count in business time) and tomorrow is a full month later and he’s already been evaluated and I’m just nailing down scheduling with his speech therapist, so his first session should be this week or next.

Social programs get a bad rap for long wait times but this has been surprisingly short, considering all the paperwork/bureaucracy stuff.

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Swallowed my pride and called Early Intervention about a speech evaluation today.

They’re either going to tell me he’s at the very bottom of the “normal” range or he’ll get services, but all of his friends are just so far ahead of him that it’s something I need to get checked out.

But also I hate it 🙃