Two words!

Green Hat! Who knew a construction worker's helmet could be so exciting? We were driving by a new group of houses going up near Samantha's preschool, and I pointed out all the diggers doing their  digging. There was a guy with a red hard hat on, and red has been a popular word for Peter lately, so I pointed that out. Then he said "green hat" (sounds more like " eee ha") and I looked, and sure enough, the rest of the guys, and one who had just joined red had, wore green hard hats. This was his first spoken, spontaneous, two word combo :)

Granted, he has been saying two one-word sentences, like Blow. Bubbles. But there has been a pause. He has also signed a word and joined it with a spoken word, like "baaaa" SHEEP, so this not completely out of the blue, but I am still happy, proud and excited that he is starting to use two word spoken phrases.  "Bug Bug school" is another one, and color words paired with a noun are burbling out too.

Peter 's AVT therapist commented on how amazingly well he is doing, and how quickly he moved to two word phrases, with only 8 months of hearing under his belt. I fully credit the use of ASL from day 1 as helping me build a language foundation, especially since the hearing aids gave him no help with speech.  Now that he is hearing I also think our Music Together classes and CD's and even though I don't sing well, my singing random songs throughout the day is helping a lot as well.

If the link below works, it is a short news clip about CI's and music therapy bridging the gap from silence to sound
http://youtu.be/geKdOyJOoA0

I think Peter is doing so well it is time to prune back anything that isn't helping....namely the services offered by the county. The people there are all really nice, but I think I can use those two hours to do something a lot more useful...more on that later. (Later is another new spoken word and sign)

Sunday Cinema

The week just started, and I am already behind!  Here is a quick video update of some new language.

Please know that I delete far more video where Peter says nothing, screeches, or gets distracted! But he is doing well, and we are so proud of him :)

This is "family" words:

I kept trying to get him to say "Nana"!

Nana' s hard work over thanksgiving paid off!

Peter loves his sisters! And the dogs, too?

Thank you!