Something to celebrate

So, we've been working with Rachel on her speech, both structure and pronunciation. Yesterday, I realized in doing her pronunciation work that she has moved from one level (isolated sound) to another (syllables with sound).

This is only one sound ("K") and there are many, many more we'll be working on in the future, but still it shows progress.

As a side note, she has been asking "why" a LOT more often than before. Usually it appears when she's asked me to do something and I either say, "No," or "In a minute." And she stays and listens to the answers. :)

Goal for this week: work on eye contact. It will really help her pronunciation.

Great Breakthrough!

So, this past Saturday was not the most fun. I've been dealing with very little sleep (teething infant) and trying to get my "interview" planned out so that as soon as I get a list of doctors I'll know what to ask them (heard some interesting stuff on that score that makes me wonder if I should go with a D.O.) and a birthday party planned and... it was a long day.

The point? I wasn't doing as well with my informal eye contact attempts with Rachel and Sarah this past weekend.

Here's the fun part. :)

Rachel came up to talk to me. Not a big thing. She asked if anything was wrong. I was busy with something and didn't look at her, told her nothing was wrong I was just busy.

She then said, "Mom?"

Still focusing on something else I said, "Yeah?"

"Over here."

I looked up at Rachel who gave me full eye contact, smiled broadly, then walked away.

:)