First words

Ennio now has 3 words in his vocabulary. Mama, dada, and moh (more). He started saying mama around Thanksgiving, and by mid-December, I think he had added Dada and moh. Since we've been back from the east coast, he will also make the T sound for Thomas (when prompted) and F sound for fire (when prompted). He's also starting to make the V sound when he plays with his cars. He's definitely babbling a lot more and seems to be making noise all the time these days.

Last night I was feeling utterly depressed about his speech progress, just wanting to be able to see new signs of progress every day. But Norg reminded me that the progress is slow, but not to lose sight of what improvements he is making. It is hard not to lose hope. It is hard to be around other children who don't have his speech problems.

But it isn't hard to remember that we are lucky. We are lucky that we identified his problems so early on and got him in therpay so soon, at such a young age. And we are lucky that his problems aren't as great as we initially feared. And he's a sweet boy. A happy boy.