Friday

S is having an imaginary conversation with someone while using a calculator for a phone. She says, "Heh-woe", then a bunch of words, then bye-bye. Sometimes she hands the phone to me to talk. Her vocabulary is expanding at a huge rate. She voluntarily did some of her tummy time today. The other day she coughed and asked herself, "Are you okay?" She also said, "Bless you" when I sneezed. The most amazing thing was when I got hurt she came over to me to see if I was okay. She even touched her hand to my back to comfort me. This was the first time she recognized anyone getting hurt. I was told that she needs to feel and understand her pain in order to feel empathy for anyone else. We always did make a big deal when she got hurt because in the beginning her pain tolerance was way too high. She has since come to me for comfort, which is a really big deal. She's repeating almost everything she hears with great clarity. She can repeat a whole sentence. She's using several words with related objects. For example, she hands me the phone and says, "Phone, talk, hello?"
Just a month ago, she would just say the word that described the object. She would say many related words to actions before, but not to objects. An example of that would be when I would tell her it's time for bed, she would say, "Nite-nite". Now she's been adding words to that like- bed. Today she added the word 'sleep' to the routine. At this rate, she should be caught up to her chronological age in a couple of months. She is on a waiting list for a speech therapist for her eating issues, but it doesn't look like we'll get in anytime soon. I'm optimistic that soon we won't need it for feeding or for speech. She has been hungry lately and eating more frequently. The amount she eats at a time is also increasing. Things are going great.