Snips Snails and Pigtails

Our Princess has been in Speech Therapy since 9 months old.  I know, I know, most of you are thinking, 9 months old!?  Trust me, “I” didn’t even know they could start that early.

At one of her well baby checkups, the Doctor became concerned that she wasn’t making appropriate baby noises.  She was evaluated and found to be delayed so they started Speech Therapy.   Despite ST on a weekly basis, she barely had any sounds and certainly did not speak.  Her first word finally came at 18 months.  At 22 months, she had a mere 26 words.  While we were very excited about that number, the Therapist told us she should have 150-300 words by age 2.  That number seemed unreachable in such a short time frame, but we pressed on.

I am happy to announce her word count is now around 100!!  Still not where it needs to be, but she’s made HUGE progress in just two months.  Every day she says something new.  This weekend she said her first sentence….”Daddy go bye”  (she didn’t quite have bye-bye down, but has since mastered that word too!) 

We are thrilled.  Words cannot express the feeling we have about her progress.  For a while there, I thought she might never talk.  Now, I think we’ll never get her to be quiet.…and that’s okay with us. J