V is making noice - and silence

This is based on a true story. Well. The whole blog is a true story so that begining of a post might not be so dramatic as in the movies. But I wanted to try it out anyway.

Recently V has taken more interest in my iPad. He can play some of the Toca-games. Toca Kitchen and Toca Train are his favourites. But lately he want´s to play the same games his brother is playing. And since A is almost 5 it´s hard. And sometimes accidents happens. V fools around and suddenly a savefile is erased. 20 hours of succes could be gone.

A is not happy with how things has turned out. He´s used to play almost whenever he want´s to (quite often) but now my wife and I try to devide time between them in a fair way.

So now there´s a lot of high voices around the iPad. V is standing up for himself. And though he can´t speak he screams and makes signs to us so that we should see if A is not being fair.

That´s good. And very annoying to hear.

We got 100 000 SEK (15 000 $) from our insurance company when we reported V´s disease. Yeah. That´s all we got. It made us aware of all the exceptions in the fine print.

But we concider using some of those money to buy another iPad and fill it with apps for V. There´s actually a few especially for disabled kids. The people behind www.babblarna.se has one, you should check it out! (Don´t mind it´s in Swedish, you and your children will understand it anyway)

In excactly one week V will become 3,5 years. Still not speaking. Only a few words: Mom, Dad. Monkey (it´s almost like dad in Swedish. Wonder why.)

But he has learn to nod and to shake his head. That´s huge. Now he can communicate in a whole new way. All the same... I just can´t help thinking... that I miss so much to hear him talk. Speak.

It will be like to know him as a person. Or... To know him better as a person. And I really want that. Now please!