Monday, November 15th 2010
Stacey, Our Speech Pathologist always comes to the house on Monday afternoon to work with both of the girls. She usually arrives at 1:45pm. 
Usually, I am still at work at this time and Taylor has usually been home for about 10 minutes before she gets to the house. Jorden happened to be home sick today, so Jase was there watching him. Stacey came over to work with Tay… and the following exchange took place…ENJOY!
Thursday, May 13th 2010
As a Special Education Teacher who is currently teaching children from 3-6 with Autism it is always a blessing and so rewarding when I see the little accomplishments in my students. I have a unique position with the school district that allows me to travel to 3 different Early Childhood Autism Programs daily and teach the children in each class for a specific amount of time. Today, I arrived at one of the schools and greeted my students outside. One of my students spotted me and ran across the playground to greet me. Now, let me just tell you a a brief history about him. When I began working with him roughly 8 months ago, he was non-verbal, wouldn’t maintain eye contact, would show little to no emotions, and had a difficult time following much of any directions. Over the past 8 months he has grown to enjoy the time I teach him and gets excited when I arrive in his class. His excitement is shown by the compliance he shows when I give him a direction.
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Meet Jorden Little
Jorden is 12 years old. He is the twin brother to Erin. He was born on April 30, 1997. The twins were originally supposed to be born on August 18th. They were both born at 24 weeks gestation, and Jorden weighed in at a whopping 1lb 15 oz. He was the first to be delivered by normal birth. The following day after birth, he had an ultra sound done on his brain to find that he experienced a bleed on his brain that was labeled as a grade III bleed. (1 being least severe to 4 being most severe). Jorden experienced many different challenges the first couple months of life such as difficulty breathing, jaundice, and also was diagnosed with ROP (retinopothy of prematurity in both of his eyes) 
He was on oxygen for nearly 1-1/2 months. The first couple of months in the Neonatal intensive care unit Jorden had a few different surgeries such as: a bilateral hernia removed, laser surgery on both of his eyes due to the ROP, and one of his main veins in his arm grew around his main I.V pick line which caused the Doctor’s to go in and remove the I.V line by surgery, which caused the entire vein to be removed. (I have been told that this is something that hardly ever happens). Jorden was in the NICU for nearly the first 2-½ months of his life. He was sent home using a heart and breathing monitor for the next 6 months of his life.
Friday, March 12th , 2010
Erin is 12 years old. She is the twin sister to Jorden. She was born on April 30, 1997. They were originally supposed to be born on August 18th. She was born at 24 weeks gestation, weighing 1 1b and 11 oz. 
Erin was born second and was delivered breech. Like Taylor, Erin also experienced a grade IV bleed on her brain (1 being least severe to 4 being most severe). She experienced difficulty breathing, jaundice, and also was diagnosed with ROP (retinopothy of prematurit) She was on oxygen for nearly 2 months and was jaundice. Erin was in the hospital for nearly 3 months. Overall, Erin did well during this time for a baby who was as small as she was. She required no surgeries, no seizures, or no other complications at this time.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
I have had many people ask me about how cerebral palsy has effected each of my children…and I realized that I have not given a background of each of them which includes medical and developmental history so I thought I would start today! Read More