Talking!

Stephanie and I have been giving this a lot of thought over the last week or so, and we think Sophie might have a word!  Or two, actually.  She started making a 'b' sound after her birthday, and at school they worked on reinforcing it every chance they could.  And we would practice it at home for her.  We think she is now saying bye bye.  She also will try to say baby, blue, and bear.  Anyway, they've been working on it and she's been doing good and reproducing the sounds, but we've been trying not to get our hopes up too much because we have probably gone through 3 or 4 times when Sophie has picked up a new sound, made it for a week or so, and then lost it.  But I think with them working on it so much at school and her going 5 days a week now (have I mentioned that yet?  we made her "full time" in January), it may stick.  They also reported one day that she attempted to say each letter of the alphabet and made some sort of sound for all of them.  And they have a "bye bye" song they sing everyday when each kid leaves, and Sophie loves it.  We sing bye bye to lots of different people names and animals everyday.

So, back to her speaking.  She's just recently started doing a good "mama" and today did it spontaneously when she went into the office and saw Stephanie sitting there.  Byebye she hasn't done without prompting yet, I don't think.  Also, every time we have snack or mealtime in her booster seat, she would sign all done at the end.  I started asking her to do an 'a' & 'd' sound for it, and she says "ahh duh".  This evening she did that spontaneously, too, after she finished her supper.  To say we are excited about this is an understatement.