Monday, June 8, 2009

BREAK THROUGH!!!!


So we had a MAJOR break through with Lucas this weekend. We have been having a speech therapist come to the house for 6 or 7 weeks now to work with him. We are not yet working on actual speech, but rather the idea of communication. It sounds a little weird, but we have to teach him the very basic ideas of communication, for example: teaching him to make eye contact with us, look at the thing he wants and then look back at us. Along with this we have been trying to teach him the sign for "more", so he will understand that you have the power to do something (sign) and then you get your desired result. We're hoping that once understands that, we can progress to sounds, and eventually words. SO, after like 6 weeks of working on the sign "more", it clicked! We were in the pool and I was twirling him around. Then I would stop, and say more, show him the sign, and then wait. I SWEAR I saw the light turn on in his head, he grinned and then did the sign all by himself. All I can say it that the neighbors must have thought we had won the freaking lottery or something, we were jumping and screaming. Of course we did it again and again. Then I pretended that I was ignoring him and would look away, he would grab my face and turn it so I was looking at him (THIS IS MAJOR by the way) and then again show me the sign for more. Seriously I can not find the words (how ironic) to describe how awesome this was for us. He got to show his speech therapist this morning and she was thrilled as well. An all around great day for Lucas (and us). Everyone, put your finger tips together for more, more, more!

9 comments:

Cassie said...

Yay Lucas!!

Chelsea said...

Wow, that's amazing! Congrats on all the hard work!

Christie said...

That is so wonderful! Way to go Lucas!

The Miners said...

Way to go! Let us know if you come up with the silver bullet for potty training. We thought we were close a number of times with Ashley but something is just not sinking in yet. Hopefully we'll have a similar moment to Lucas where it will just click! (fingers crossed)

Melissa B said...

That is so great! How awesome to make progress and beable to communicate better.

Brittany said...

Yay for Lucas! I am so happy for you guys.

Elle said...

Yay for Lucas. I would be sooo excited as well!

Big O said...

that is great guys! we are so pumped for you!

Brooke said...

Yeah Lucie!