So, apparently, speech class is working. The Little Man is talking like crazy! And it has really been an overnight change.
At the end of March (geez, has it really been that long?) an old friend of the Big Man's and his family were in town and came over for dinner. As their children marched around our house and deck, making their own band, LM somehow ended up with his shaker egg in hand. Just for fun, I started singing one of our speech school songs. (Miss Terry calls it school so the kids know it's time to work) Shake, shake, shake and shake, shake and shake and ROLL! I told LM he could sing, and he started saying "Roll!" first time ever! Then, he totally sang along with the next verse, Bang, bang, bang and bang, bang and bang and ROLL! Amazing, right?
Next morning, I went in to LM's bedroom to get him up for the day, and was still wearing my green PJs, which LM pointed to and said, "Geen!!" I didn't even know he could say that! He started gaining a word or more every day. I had to make a list to keep up!
A couple of weeks later, my dad was the lucky person to be the first family member (besides Mama and Dada) who's name LM said! We were Skyping with the family, and he'd been talking so much, we thought we could try, and out comes "Pop-Pop!" My dad was thrilled! (in defense of my mom and BM's parents, Pop-Pop is the easiest to say of all the grandparents' names).
Since then, he's added at least one new word every day, and sometimes 3 or 4 words. Often, they are words that we didn't know that he knew. He has the cutest little voice! One of LM's favorite things to do now is to narrate his play. While he plays trains (his favorite thing EVER), he talks and talks about what the trains (or, "cains") are doing. "Ferdinand follow Bash, Dash," "Bash, Dash follow Ferdinand." Currently, Bash, Dash, and Ferdinand, the Misty Island Logging Locos, are Billy's favorites.
