Attempts to Interact

I just saw the coolest thing!

I'm sitting here in the living room with my laptop on the coffee table, and the Terror Twins (Lexi & Chloe) were sitting on the floor next to me, playing with a couple of small balls.

Syrina walked up to them and stood in the middle of the two of them, watching what they were doing. She then bent down and tried to interact with the two of them, but they were only paying attention to each other, not her, and didn't realize what she was doing. After a few seconds I could see her change her mind and she walked into her bedroom.

That's the first time - EVER - that I've seen Syrina actually attempt to interact with the two of them, though! Even though it didn't quite work, I could see her trying to do it. And to be honest, she didn't wait very long for them to figure out what she was doing. If she'd tried a little harder, they might have "gotten it" and let her play with them.

But still... it's a start! If she's going to try once, who's to say she won't try again? And eventually, she might actually be able to get them to understand that she actually does want to play with them!

I just thought it was the coolest thing... and since I had the laptop open ANYWAY.... I thought I'd write a post about it!

:)

MORE D.L.A. progress!!!!

Well.... ya know how I said "it's all just a matter of time"?

Things are progressing quite quickly. The phone rang this morning - Hubby was out at an appointment with the Job Centre regarding his going to school next week, so I had to answer it. The woman actually asked if *I* was Syrina!!!! LOL!!! I told her, "Um... Syrina doesn't speak." So then she asked for Hubby, and I told her that he was out. When she said where she was from, I told her "Well, I'm the mother, you can talk to me!"

They want me to take her to see the doctor on the 23rd. I was under the impression - from what Hubby said - that the doctor would be coming here. But it's not a big deal. The appointment is set for 10:45 a.m., which means I can easily get the other 3 to school, back home, and get her wherever we're going (not exactly sure yet, they're going to send me all the details in the mail). I'll just keep her off school until after the appointment, and I can take her back to school on the bus afterwards.

They're moving along with this a lot quicker than I had thought. But that's a good thing. I was really hoping that they wouldn't drag this out. Back when I first applied for her social security benefits, it took them over a year to deny her. Then I applied again a year (or two?) later, and it took them 6 months to get to the point where they'd even send her to a doctor. Once I did that, though, it wasn't long before they finally approved her. I'm hoping it'll be a similar situation with these DLA people.

Oh... that's another thing. Hubby was doing some research on what they pay for DLA and all that, and found out that not only will we get more money from them, but we'll get more money for her on our Child Tax Credit benefit as well, just because she's disabled. If everything goes through as it should (and I can't see any reason why it wouldn't), our monthly income will almost double!!!

That forklift is so close I can almost see the driver!!!