Hi Mom-eye!

I don't have to travel much anymore for work, but the occasional trip comes up and I really MISS being home! Last week I went to New York for a day of meetings, when I called home Lucas was on the other end of the phone and said as clear as ever... “Hi, Mom-eye!” This was the first time! You see, the word, "mommy" has been a transition... starting with “mama” (as all kids do), then it transitioned into “ma-eee” (which is so darn cute… my name for months has been a two syllable "my”). This time it was so clear... "Hi Mom-eye". Brings happy tears just thinking about it.

His language is really taking off, moving into more two syllable words. He's trying new sounds and words all the time and surprises us by just repeating a random word in a long sentence that one of us might say. I've learned just how often I say "yeah," instead of "yes".. because my little mimicker repeats me every time! I'm going to have to start watching my mouth!

This past weekend Bran and I were in the car and someone honked the horn. From the back seat, Lucas yells, "beep beep". We'd never heard it before, the nanny taught it to him. We had a good laugh. He has so many words now that I can't list them out anymore. He learned to say "g'ma" just in time for Grandma's visit a few weeks ago. The word, "G'pop" came a few weeks later and this past week I taught Lucas to say "Go Buckeyes!"... or as he says it, "go kies". So cute. We've got "G" (for Bran's Mom) and we're still working on "GranDan".

We are working with our speech therapist on techniques to use words proactively, and try to move beyond mimicking. I can't tell you how happy we are that he is making progress in the language area...this is a very big deal! Hopefully we get to officially put a "check" by this one for the neurologist who said he may never talk.

G'ma's Visit

Getting a special song from Grandpa Blain and Great-Uncle Brian. Lucas loves music!