Making Some Progress

I am happy to report that Christian has made some progress with his speech and development this week! It seems as though his progress had plateaued for the past couple of months, but this week he has made a come back from it.

Examples include;

• Saying "Yay," while clapping his hands.
• He goes around saying "Hey ya," (which he got off of Jesse on Toy Story 3.)
• He learned how to suck out of a straw last night! He has it pretty well mastered. His biggest problem is after he sucks the liquid out, he opens his mouth and the liquid falls back out. Not sure what that is about yet. This is a huge milestone, considering we have been "practicing" this for over a year. His biggest problem was not being able to understand he had to close his lips around the straw, but he figured it out! :)
• He will now stand in front of the bathroom sink and TRY to brush his teeth. After brief attempts of brushing his teeth he will lean into the sink and spit (mainly making noise with his mouth then actually spitting) and say "eww." I still have to lay him on the counter and hold him down (while he screams and kicks) to be sure his teeth are brushed completely. Usually the attempt with him brushing his own teeth ends up with him walking around the house visually self stimulating with his tooth brush and humming. We may not have this skill mastered yet but he is at least using his tooth brush appropriately.
• He also has four new signs. Grumpy, train, leaf, and boy.