The results

I received a call yesterday from the elementary school where Levi had his speech evaluation. When the lady said who she was on the phone my heart instantly started pounding and my hands started sweating.

Rewind...The evaluation went horribly wrong. Looking back on the evaluation and the timing of it I should have rescheduled it. Levi got 2 shots just 3 days prior to this evaluation and had been running a fever since. Then he started getting sick and sneezing. So on Friday there was snot everywhere. I had to keep wiping his nose and he seriously could not stop sneezing. He would sneeze about every 5-10 minutes. They wanted to check his eye sight and hearing but he wanted nothing to do with that. They tried to get him to count and he wouldn't even though he can count to 15. They tried to get him to name the characters of his favorite movie Cars but he wouldn't. It's like he just froze up. He suddenly forgot how to speak. The words he did say were not clear b/c he was coughing and congested. Jax was with us so I had to deal with him getting upset on top of Levi not focusing on what they needed him to do. I finally just broke down in tears. I told you I would. I walked out of the school so mad, frustrated, and feeling even more like a failure as a mom to Levi. I cried all day! I was expecting the worst report ever and they would tell me that Levi was so far behind. I didn't want to reschedule due to the fact that who knows when they would be able to get him in again. They told me initially that it could be a month for them to see him. So I left the school just broken.

Fast forward to yesterday and the call. I'm not sure if they are supposed to give the results over the phone. The lady didn't really sound like she wanted to tell me the results. They told me when I left last Friday they would just mail me a report. So the call surprised me but I guess it is law that they have to offer you a meeting with the Speech Therapist to discuss the findings. I can't remember how it came out but she told me that Levi didn't qualify for therapy. That's right!! My child's speech is NORMAL!! I just about jumped out of my skin! That made me so happy. I'm not one of those parents that wants something to be wrong with my child or wants him to get therapy just to get it. If any of our kids have issues we will get them fixed as best we can. She told us that the sounds/words that Levi currently says are normal for his age and the sounds/words that Levi doesn't say are normal for his age. We are still going in to the therapist to discuss the report though. Just to get ideas and tips on how to improve his speaking. I personally do feel like Levi is a little behind with his speech but it is our fault. We've let him get away with saying words like "bippy" instead of sippy or "ya ya" instead of yogurt. Things like that we are correcting now but we just never noticed them before. But I don't think that he is far enough behind to need intensive speech therapy for it.

I can't tell you how powerful prayer is. This is an answer to our prayers for sure. I am going to continue to work with Levi each day and get his sounds better. We've been doing our "school" for 3 weeks now and I can see a little improvement. But we have nothing but time on our side. He will be ok!

Yesterday was a great day!