havent bloged in a while

Hayden was evaluated using Batelle Developmental Inventroy at 25 months Social 17 months, Adaptive 18 months, Motor 19 months Communication 13 months Cognitive 14 months overall 17 months

Using the Receptive - Expressive Emergent Language Test Receptive 13 months Expressive 11 months

Hayden stays with a freind of mine on Sunday evenings while me and hubby lead a youth bible study group it is the only time he is away from me except on Sunday mornings...

Well tonite my friend said wow he is really trying to talk isnt he. She said he was just a babbling away of course she couldnt understand anything he said other than his stands. uhoh and bye bye , mama but she said that was the most she has ever heard him try to talk :) and he has a new word ere,,, here so he is up to 11 words now

1.uhoh 2, byebye 3, mama, 4, dada, 5 taco 6 no 7 uhhuh (yes) 8 nack (snacK) any food is nack

9 bah (robyn sister) 10 bub (Dylan brother) 11 ere here

Wow

is all I can see in the last few days my little one is trying soooo hard to talk.. He is still jabbering to himself all the time but some of the words I have heard him say other the weekend our:

his favorite word is bye-bye
mama, dada, no, Taco (that is our dogs name every animal is taco whether it is the cats or dog or cow he sees on tv) ball, he use nack (snack) but havent heard him say that one in a lonnng time.. he jsut points. uhoh is another favorite word and normally is on purpose just so he can say the word... still no two word phrases.. but its just music to my ears to him try to talk..

He had a appt today and my almost 2 year old weighs 26lbs and is 33 inches long...

Sunday August 9th

Today hubby was getting Hayden out of the tub and he told hubby no dada when Scott tried to get him out of the tub he told me that and I was so proud of him .

Haydens words for today

There were not many....

mama, yea, no,

23 months and 2wks

Im starting this blog so I can keep an update on Hayden's speech.. It is more for me but you are welcome to read his progress and cheer us on.

So far this is what is going on... I think Ive known since about 15 months that something was wrong just didnt know what... You have to remember I have 3 kids and worked in childcare for 10 years so I should have known but I kept saying he will start... but guess what he is now very close to 2 and says very few words and they are not consistent... He is very smart though and he understands what you are saying to him.. he is just not speaking.. We will begin a program in Ga they call it babies cant wait and what i have heard it is a very good early invetnion program. Just waiting on the paper work to go through.. The best part is they come to him... We dont have to go anywhere...

Words as of today:

mama,daddy, snack, byebye, uhoh..

He tries to talk he babbles all the time and has converstations with himself he can talk up a storm in his own language.