But this is one of them: 
The girl has been begging, pleading, bribing the boy to say her name spontaneously for over four years. (She started coming to our house to work with Waylon before he turned three, and has remained his primary speech pathologist through preschool, kindergarten, and now first grade. How lucky are we?)
She taught him to make noises- ("ba ba ba") before she worked for hours/days/weeks/months to get him to repeat "Daddy", and then "Mommy". She taught him to sign and eventually say "more", then "my turn", then "help me". Who am I kidding- she has worked tirelessly to teach the boy virtually every word he knows.
And all of the obligatory Christmas ornaments and plates of brownies and you're-the-best-speech-path-ever thank you's don't hold a candle to the gift she got today.
Kudos, Miss Jennifer.
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