So many things sound promising!
UAN, do you have Head Start where you live? If so, check in and see if you can get him into their early program. He would most likely qualify due to his speech issues. They can take them as young as infants if they have any delays. Nookie just started speaking in leaps and bounds not long ago. She did babble and we could understand some things but she refused to call me Grandma until about a month and a half ago when she finally just copied her older sister. Even so they are putting her in speech because she has trouble with some letters. The kids took my advice and got her in a very good day care center.
I wish everyone would take my advice and let me home school Monkey. I think she would do so much better. We have access to that K12 program which is free and I just think she would have a much easier time. She is really good on my computer and she doesnt have access to the internet where she lives now. Now of course she wants to live with me and do this because she thinks I would be a much easier push over...lol. She is so wrong. She found out this weekend that I am starting to expect her to be a big girl and do things to help grandma. She is beginning to understand that I am not well and I need help from time to time. I had a bad day on Saturday and I insisted that she help me clean my kitchen. After she insisted she had no idea how she did a very good job of it...lol. At almost 8 she is well old enough. She earns a pretty nice allowance when she is here if she helps out.