Time for Some Aidan Talk

Wow.
Two months from tomorrow is Aidan's first day of preschool.
Two weeks from tomorrow is his first visit to the dentist. (yea, yea, I should have taken him sooner)
Today was his third tee-ball game. (& he's still making more sandcastles during the game than home runs...)

We've been increasingly busy, squeezing in things here or there as we can.
Like yesterday. Busy and stressful.

We rushed to get to Story Time at our library, which was at 10:00. The teacher this session is Miss Martha, and this woman is so good, she makes you want to be a kid again so you can go to her story time. I never have to question Aidan's safety with her, nor question whether or not he'll enjoy the time there. He loves it. Miss Martha rocks. (pictured right: Aidan wearing his ladybug hat, made at Story Time)

Because of all that, I didn't want to keep him from the library yesterday. We rushed there, made it in time, but at 10:30 I had to pull Aidan out early so we could make it to his 10:50 doctor's appointment. We were going for his school physical.

Now, normally Brennan wants to go down for his nap around 9:45/10:00, so he was already getting over-tired before we got to the doctor's office. It didn't help that we had to wait roughly 30 minutes before being called back. Grrr. The nurse was with us right away. After doing her part-vision screening, weight, height, blood pressure-we continued to wait in that prison-cell-sized-room for nearly another 25 minutes or so. By the time the doctor actually came in, Aidan & Brennan were both overtired, hungry, crabby, and restless. Not to mention I was feeling the same way. Oh how I love doctors' appointments with both kids. (we really need to find a sitter)

Despite the waiting, the appointment went well. The purpose behind it was a physical required for preschool. Aidan is about 43 inches tall, and still under 40 pounds. (lol) He is so much like his daddy. He has 20/20 vision and identifies his numbers, letters, and shapes well. The one thing the doctor considered problematic was Aidan's speech, which I expected. My problem was that I've been thinking like a parent, and not a teacher. It clicked when the doctor said his speech issue could affect his peer interaction in school. Consequently, he referred us to a speech therapist.
Thinking of those potential problems with peer interaction, I'd like to get him to the speech therapist. The problem is it's covered under our insurance as a specialist, meaning it's $30 per visit. With the typical speech therapy schedule, we'd be looking at $120+ a month! That's a lot of money. In fact, it's more than his preschool tuition.

We don't know yet what we'll do. I'd like to try and send him for one month, monitoring his progress after that amount of time. I suppose we could wait until he's in 1st grade, then it's covered by the school. I don't feel that comfortable with that, though. *SIGH* The school-related stress has already begun at the young age of 4.

That's the jist of it. Speech therapy recommended, all else is good. He's excited for his dental appointment, continues to make sand castles during his tee-ball games, and is busy planning his daddy's birthday (which is tomorrow).

I'm looking forward to the next few days. Pat's birthday, 4th of July, family time and grilling out...I hope it will a nice few days of much needed down time. Hopefully the four of us, too.