Random mum moments

Aww, cute. I love mum moments like this. Sometimes, I can get carried away, to the point of crying. Sighs. 

I'd love to be a mum!

I've been told that I was just gaining my confidence with my speech, since I was a bit late myself, but then I was speaking in complete sentences when I did start. And then became a huge chatterbox!

For my oldest, it was probably partly confidence, but also not having the ability to form certain sounds. He had speech therapy before starting school, and then it continued for several years. It makes a lot more sense when you factor in the DCD diagnosis we later received - you can go all the way back to his days as a newborn and see how low muscle tone affected him in some areas.

My biggest challenge these days with the youngest isn't how he's pronouncing things. Instead, it's that his volume is loud when it shouldn't be, then super quiet when you need him to speak up and spit out an answer. Oy! He also tends to use a high pitch because he'll be excited, but it sounds like he's shouting everything. (I call it "indoor shouting" when the boys sub a higher pitch for higher volume.) I think I'll tell him that's the "town crier voice" and it's not the one we need most of the time!

My son is 40 he's on Facebook and he insists on telling the world that as a child he lived on mac and cheese or welfare burgers. This is his description of home-made hamburgers. He tells anyone who will listen 'we were so poor my mother wouldn't take us to McDonald's but she scraped together some meat and give us welfare burgers instead' ...

Truth of the matter they were so allergic to everything they couldn't have commercial sauces,burgers and rubbish plus there was no McDonald's within 20 miles of us