Hello!

Another thing that Will recently started doing is babbling on the play phone.  This is something that I have been trying to get him to do to promote more speech sounds and finally he has started picking it up on his own and putting it to his ear to 'talk'.  I know that this falls in that most people barely notice when their kid does this catagory, but I was overly excited since I want him to babble more...but also since I love to talk!  My niece did this from a very young age so I also know it is a typical stage that kiddos go through, but he just wasn't interested until recently.  His speech therapist really encourages it since it is good pretend play that promotes lots of sounds.  We really like his new speech therapist.  We see her every other week at Children's in Dublin.  She mostly plays with will and trys to get him to either babble or sign or take turns with something.  So he calls grandma and we talk to his friends and sometimes we call daddy at work:) 
We also have a play microphone that he is starting to really play with and he loves to shout into his bucket to hear his voice as well.  He is signing several things too!  He signs more, all done, ball, daddy, mommy, milk (sometimes) and for a couple days after we went to the zoo, he signed elephant, but now he won't do it:(  So although he has no real words he is working hard in the speech realm.