Harumph! I am growchy. My laptop is dead -- or will not start at all. I don't like this new blog design and I can't fix it because everything I use is on the laptop.
But . . .
Julia and I are going to pick up David in a few minutes from his Kentucky travels, and we have had a really good time together. Julia is more mellow than she has ever been, and she is able to listen and understand (I think) what is going on. Marilyn was saying today that Julia and I have been traveling a lot over the last few months and maybe that has something to do with her understanding. That may be true. Maybe she is more comfortable with the idea of going away and coming back.
But it is also her clarity. Julia asks more questions about the here and now, and also about what is coming. She has been trying very hard to say Kentucky -- it has too many consonent and messes her up every time. she surprises people with questions -- Is you car okay? she asked one of her therapists after the therapist called in the day before because of car trouble. She is remembering and then using language to show people that she cares. Right out of one of our social story books.
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The social story books are not exactly fairy tales!
Loving the way Julia is finding herself in space and in time, and especially in the here and now. It is possible that she might have lived in a world without present, past or future.
I think 7 and 8 is when the time signals, conventionally used, mean something real to children.
And it was good that she asked the therapist about the car, and how if it was okay.
Kentucky really must be tough to say, especially with the consonants. Try not to feed her too much fried chicken from that state! (The reason is that it may have too many growth hormones which may muck up with peptides and amino acids).
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