"My Baby!"

Yes, this is what Jesse said today. I'm adding it to his list of two-word phrases, which, until today, has consisted only of "bye [insert noun]." He says "bye bees," "bye Mom" (I nearly fell on the floor when he said that to me when I dropped him off at day care last week), and "bye Da/Josh/Nan/Pop."

This sweet little phrase turned my otherwise crappy afternoon into pure awesomeness. We were meeting with Miss Crabby-Ass insurance adjuster when he said it. I had just taken him out of the room because he was getting loud. I was holding his baby doll (which was MY baby doll 29 years ago) and he reached out and said "my baby!" Clear as day. He hasn't said it since, but I'm hoping to hear it again soon.

In other news, we reached a deal with the other guy's insurance agency. They're giving us a grand total of $1000 for our car, but we get to keep the car and scrap her. (They're paying to replace the car seat as well.) We also found a new(ish) car to replace Steve's 1999 Sonata. It's another Sonata. A 2006 model. Steve is quite pleased that for once his car will be newer than mine (by about 5 months). We get to pick her up tomorrow. I was so worried that we wouldn't have found another car by the time Steve goes back to work next week. (He's on holidays this week for the ABA training.) We need two cars since Steve works about 30 minutes outside of town and Jesse has his speech therapy and various other appointments during the week that I need to take him to.

So that's a couple of things that are now out of the way.

Tomorrow Steve and I start the ABA training. We had hoped to be doing this with our newly hired home therapist, but we haven't even gotten around to looking at the resumes yet. We'll probably be starting that task tomorrow night or Wednesday night. The ISSP is tentatively scheduled for April 19th. Only then will funding be approved to pay our home therapist, so I don't feel too behind.

Oh, and we're also going gluten free (GF) this week. I just need to pick up some foods to get us through the first week or so while we learn how to incorporate non-gluten containing foods into our diet. I'll definitely write more on this later. Oh, and my book report. I'll have to work that in too. Damn, I'm such a procrastinator!