Do you notice anything weird about this picture? Look at this toddlers tongue...it is "tied." After speaking on the phone with Micah's doctor yesterday, I decided to investigate tongue-tied. I told her what the therapist said about the retrictive moments of his tongue and she suspected that he could be tongue-tied. When Charlie got home, we held him down and both examined his tongue. We both agreed that his tongue looked stranged (some what like the toddler in the picture) and strongly feel that he might be tongue-tied. Neither one of us are an expert in this area, so we are just going on his tongue compared to ours. We will have to take him to the doctor to know for sure. Well, come to find out it runs in families and my dad is also tongue-tied and required speech when he was younger. So what does all this mean??? If we are right, then it is great news!!! It means that Micah's speech problem is not anything serious like we thought before, but it is just because he can't move his tongue. This would also explain why he cannot eat meat. If this is the case, then they do a simple surgical procedure and we will probably see the effects of it immediatly. He will be freed!!!! I can't help but get excited about the possibility that we may not have a long road of speech therapy, just a quick trip to the operating room and DONE! I will try and contain myself for now though, because we could be completely wrong, but for now we will be hopeful.