Day 113 - Big Boy

Yesterday, Sam had his yearly evaluation by the speech therapist and his early childhood specialist.  It went great!!!  All but 2 of his stats were in normal range and his speech was up to 24 months (Sam is 32 months).  He is talking more and more everyday and we couldn't be happier!  It is so fun to watch him develop the ability to communicate verbally.  He seems to really get a kick out of people understanding him.  We have been encouraging him to use his words and a lot of times our conversations start out with "What do you say?"  Now,  our conversations go like this.

Sam (holding our hand):  What do you say?
Ben/Tracey:  What do you say?
Sam:  Up please!  (Giant smile)

It is so funny that he thinks he is supposed to say "What do you say" .

The only other area that he scored a little low on was "Self-help".  Apparently, this is because when the evaluation was written people were potty training at 24 months.  Not the case at our house.  Also included in the assessment was the ability to use utensils.  Just in the last couple of weeks (specifically today) Sam has decided that he will use a spoon.  He's had the motor skills forever but now he thinks it is worth his time. It only took giving him a root-beer float.  Such a stinker.

Finally the last thing in the self-help portion of the assessment was the child's ability to dress them self.  As you can see, we need to work on this a little bit.