waiting for a song

It is always funny how you have 2 kids that are so similar but yet vastly different at the same time. Our Son is 3 and he has had a bit of an uphill battle. He has autism, epilepsy, apraxia of speech and a few other conditions, mostly neurological in nature.

Autism just means that he has difficulty with social, communication, and behavioral domains that keep him from functioning in the world with the rest of us.....in a nut shell. The apraxia is just something that really throws a wrench in it, it is a neurological condition where your brain and mouth there is a disconnect between the two. There are times that he can talk and it is clear, and then there are times that he is trying so hard and it comes out like gobblygook no matter how hard he is trying.  He does have a communication device that he uses but the school isnt on board with it.....that is another post for another time. Then the epilepsy can sometimes add to it.

Anyway, my point is that he does love music, despite what the school says. He does not participate in any musical or singing thing at school at all, they think it is his personality......oh. no.....they dont know the real him.

He can air drum with the best of them, we have a piano that he loves to play, we have guitars, a drum, a tambourine. oh, and his sister thinks she lives in a Disney musical, so music is all around us all of the time. She sings Frozen (yeah, still!) and he smiles along and tries to get the words out but they dont come. It is like that a lot for him.

AND THEN IT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!

Him and I were sitting watching Disney's The Lion Guard for the 100th time and he sang with the show.....he sang the words, they came out and he was proud of his voice! I would not of believed it if I didnt hear it with my own ears but he did! He sang a song and he did it well!

He sang his song, was be boppin' his head, as I was tapping my toes. We was just happy as a clam.

Go T!!!!!!

Keep on singing!