Hi

We're working on speech and it's coming, albeit slowly. Anna babbles a lot; we're just waiting for her to add a few more words to her vocabulary. One of the words Anna does say very well is 'hi'. She was starting to say it awhile ago but wasn't very consistent with it. And sometimes it came out more like 'I'.

So one day we were driving home from my mom's and I started saying 'hi' to everything we passed: the trees, the cars, the houses, etc. We continued to play this game in the car for the next couple of days and it did the trick. Anna says 'hi' to everything and everyone. Sometimes she'll just walk up to me and say 'hi'. It's hysterical! And when we go to the playground, forget about it! Every child that comes into sight gets a big wave and 'hi' from Anna the Playground Greeter.

Last night Anna slept at my parents' house so I called this morning to see how everything was going. In the past my mom would put the phone on speaker so Anna could hear me say 'hello' and sometimes she would babble back, but this morning she said 'hi' nice and clearly a couple of times. It was the first time I heard her talk on the phone - very fun!