Catching Up

It's been a couple of months since I've updated this blog and I am sorry for that!  I hadn't realized it had been so long until I was chatting with a mom I recently met who has a 6 week old son who will be getting his first set of hearing aids soon and she brought up how she had been reading my blog....whoops!

It has been a bit of a whirlwind lately with Logan's speech development.  It's only been four months since he had really started trying to say words and imitating us.  In this short time, he has already gone from single words to two and three word phrases.  Last week, his speech therapist had asked about the three word phrases, since this development is so new, and I couldn't think of any examples so I decided to keep track of them over the last week. Here are some examples:

Help mama puff puff (aka cocoa puffs)
All done get down
No milk Jaz (when he didn't want his sister to have any milk)
More light on (He is a big fan of turning EVERY light on in the house. Me, not so much)
All done pancake
It's daddy's truck
Sorry. Gentle mama (He is also a fan of hitting and saying gentle after he gets in trouble.)
Help mama washer (At least he is a good little helper!)
No more water
All done eat. All done pizza (yes, this was all at one time!)
More pizza, yes please
Gentle pet Blackjack (He was hitting the dog and I was telling him to be gentle.)

There are more, but I thought this would give a good example of his progress.

Logan has also started going to a Mother's Day Out program once a week. His sister goes three times a week so we thought it would be good for him to get some exposure to kids his own age, learn to socialize, and get him used to the structure of a classroom setting. We thought it would be best to do this because next fall he will be attending the Sunshine Cottage Pre-K3 class five days a week.  Since it is an oral school for deaf children, they start them out early to give them a head start on catching up with their hearing peers.  The school also takes typical hearing children if they can be a language model in the classroom. Because of this, we will also be sending our daughter Jasmine to the 4 year old class next year. She is definitely a language role model and will talk anyone's ear off who will let her!

I also wanted to share a video of Logan talking at dinnertime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8JmpTENl8w