Speech Graduation

Yeah! Titus has graduated from speech. He has made so much progress this past year and a half. It used to be impossible to understand what he was saying and he would get so frustrated

. He actually looked forward to speech every week. He had a great therapist named Ms. Beth. She came to our house once a week to work with Titus. Of course, I have 2 other kiddos that she had to put up with too. I was so thankful for her patience. Titus is already asking for her. He misses his teacher. He has learned alot from her. You can actually hold a conversation with him and understand him now. Although recently, I have wished a few people hadn't understood what he said. For instance, he is going through a name calling and insulting stage. He may have even called his Mamaw a liar and that she had a fat butt. So he got in trouble but then I was told later that I was fat too. I have got to break him from this soon before he insults a stranger and I get clobbered. Titus has been a little handul again around here. We went to the flea-market last weekend and he had his hands full of items he had picked up along the way. I knew that a couple booths had given him a few toys, but obviously it wasn't all given to him because a lady came chasing him down and said, "give that back" and jerked stuff out of his arms. Oops! I honestly don't think he realized he was stealing because the other stuff was given to him. Sunday night, he wasn't so innocent. Maynard has been letting him take up the offering. Well our pastor was out of town so Maynard was leading the service so Titus was on his own. After taking the offering up, Titus sat on the front row so sweetly. Then I noticed it appeared that he was trying to count the money. Ha! So I motioned for him to come to me so I could put the money away. I noticed him sticking something up under his armpit aa he walked over. He handed me the money bag and I grabbed his arm. I pulled a $20 dollar bill out from under his armpit. Let's just say he lost his job as an usher real quicklike. Will someone please tell me that they had a wild child like Titus and that he turned out just fine? Oh yeah, he even told the garbage man his mommy wasn't paying the garbage bill no more so he didn't need to come back to our house anymore. The reason for that was Titus blames the garbageman when he hauls off junk that we throw away. Titus finds it hard to part with stuff. The last thrown away item was a chair of theres that they had broken down. Maynard threw it in the garbage outside and Titus was devastated. He thought he could trick our garbageman into not coming anymore. I wondered why he had asked me what would happen if I stopped paying the garbage bill. Of course my answer was, "they will stop picking up our garbage, Titus." Ha Ha! You reckon that was the answer he was hoping for? lol That kid never ceases to amaze me. Now I'm hoping he or Amelia don't get sick. Josiah's chickenpox turned into another virus called slapcheek or 5th disease. It's going around now so be careful. Symptoms are a highfever and a red face. Sometimes you get covered in a red rash which Josiah got on top of his chickenpox. Don't worry, he isn't contagious anymore and I kept him home for several days until it was safe to get out again. I am wore slap out, but so thankful for a healthy boy once again. It will be a miracle and an act of God if the rest of us don't get sick. Well, I'm done rattling. Have a great weekend.