Funny Story

Hey all, I just had to share a funny thing that happened the other day. I was day-dreaming my reoccuring dream of starting my own speech/language preschool and was trying to come up with a clever name. Some ideas I had were, "Talk With Me", "Talking Time", "The Speech Room" and "The Speech Station", all of which are already taken. I was saying all this out loud to Jayson and he suddenly chimed in with "The Epiglottal Stop" (sparked by the Speech Station idea)! :) I just burst out laughing. I guess over the years he has picked up some of our speechie lingo. He didn't quite remember that it is just called the glottal stop. So what do you think? How do you think parents would feel about telling people their child goes to the "Epiglottal Stop Preschool"? :)

Smelly Day

You know that you are in trouble when you are in the middle of a speech session at 8:45 am in the morning with a PRESCHOOL kid and all of the sudden a horrible smell hits you!

You sniff and try to concentrate on breathing out of your mouth and continuing your lesson when out of the blue he says, "I hate farts..." What do you do? Mark it down as data after all it was a spontaneous utterance...If I would have known that this would foreshadow what was to come, I would have locked up and went home early. My speech space is shared with the Guided Reading Library. It is literally a closet and has no ventilation. I usually leave the door open because there is no window to the room. However, when the air doesn't move - it doesn't move. For the remainder of the day, I had horrible smell after horrible smell come wafting over the table.

Here's the pic from Karen's AWESOME Christmas party!!