Sunday Snapshots- "Making Progress"

This was week number three for speech therapy and I am somewhat amazed how quickly we are seeing progress. Especially after witnessing what went down on week one.........

Reagan decided to show her new teacher just how "Spicy" she could be right out of the gate.
She would not repeat anything she said, nor would she do any of the signs that Miss Kelly was trying to teach her. She was not having any of it and had a meltdown or two during the session.

A few hours after the teacher left, Reagan woke up from her much needed nap and did every sign she was taught and said the words to go with them. Our girl was holding out on the new teacher....... or just testing the waters. Pat was present for week two and he said it went very well. Reagan began to let her in and actually did what was asked of her.

Miss Kelly does not show up with a bag of goodies. She jumps into whatever we happen to be doing here at the house. If the girls are playing in their pretend kitchen, then she takes that opportunity to use words and signs and incorporate them into play. It is working extremely well and even Sarah looks forward to Friday morning Speech Therapy. We have to gently remind her that this hour is really for Reagan, but Sarah does not want to miss a minute and is right there cheering on her baby sister and helping the teacher encourage Reags to say her new words.

I was the one here for this week's session, so I decided to pull out the camera to get a few photos of Reagan working with Miss Kelly. She knows the routine now and as soon as Miss Kelly comes in and sits on the couch, Reagan will go up and get the pen to do some drawing on her folder. After that she usually goes through her sticker book and takes one or two. I am not sure where she got this from, but she puts all of her stickers on her face. This week she put it on her nose and had Sarah laughing like crazy.

After the drawing and the stickers, they decided to play with her baby dolls.
Well.... Reagan was not so sure she wanted to hand her over, but eventually gave in and let Miss Kelly hold her beloved baby.

I simply could not believe my ears this week. Her list of words is growing quickly!
Granted they are all simple, one syllable words...... but nonetheless, they are NEW WORDS!!

In addition to saying Mommy and Daddy, she is now saying:

hi
bye
ball
mix
up
dot
pat
in
mine
me
block
pop
no
Nick
night night
and her favorite.... MORE!!

I have the most adorable video of her saying them while she is in the bathtub. Unfortunately, I can't share it because she kept getting up out of the water, I am going to try to video her again this week but I will make sure to do it somewhere other than the bathtub so you all can view it. We love listening to her little voice. It is like music to our ears. Right now I am feeling very glad that I listened to my gut and called Early Intervention when I did. We are thrilled with Miss Kelly. Not only is she great with Reagan {and Sarah}, she gives both Pat and I things to work on with her each week. When the evaluation team came out they said that they could give her the speech therapy at the daycare center if it were easier. We requested they come to our house so that one of us could be there to oversee the session and so we could learn how to incorporate all of these techniques into our everyday life. We definitely made the right decision.

So many of you said that it would not take long for us to see the benefits of Early Intervention........and now I can say I believe that wholeheartedly! She might say a lot of the same words over and over again right now, but she is TALKING, TALKING, TALKING....and that's what counts.

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