Listen to the Rain

Yesterday, we went over to a friend's house and her almost four-year-old was using short but full sentences and interacting with her mother in a conversational fashion. All this morning, Laila was barely saying anything. She was throwing tantrums at the drop of a hat, and when we asked her questions she just didn't answer. She would wordlessly whine if anything went wrong and would refuse to do anything by herself, just crying or at most saying "need help! " if anything offered any resistance at all. It was so bad that sashagee called in to the pediatrician and asked them if we could have another speech evaluation. I'm convinced that there's something the first speech evaluator missed and she should have had speech therapy this entire time.

However, this post is much more hopeful than it could have been. Just before lunch, Laila had an accident and we had to spend a bunch of time cleaning her up...but once that was done, it was like the floodgates had opened. At lunch she wanted to spoon miso soup into her cup "all by self!" and she was chatty the entire rest of the day. On the walk to swim class she talked to me the entire time. She went back to using sentences and telling me about things. It was like night and day. She had apparently been using like 80% of her brainpower on holding everything in.

We're still going to get her evaluated because I think it would be good to have confirmation (or not), but we're not nearly as worried as we were. She's just extremely stressed from potty training, the poor girl.