More!

Last night, Randy took Reyana and Kelton on a little ride to the convenience store for a treat. He brought back candy bars. I gave Audrena a bite of mine, and then she walked over to Randy to try a bite of his. After the first bite, she looked up at him and said very clearly, "More." She only said it once, but it was crystal clear. I can't wait until she is saying words regularly!

This morning in speech, she turned to her name on the first try 3 out of 5 times. She is doing well with the ling sounds except "sssss." We can't tell if she's just not hearing it, or if she's not reacting to it. We'll bring this up at Thursday's USD speech session to see what our Audiologist thinks. Our new Speech-Language Pathologist, K. is absolutely wonderful with Audrena, and we're seeing more and more progress. K. has also said she plans to come to next Thursday's session at USD so she can coordinate with our professionals there. She also has worked with J., our Speech-Language Pathologist at Boys Town, in the past, and J. remembered her when I e-mailed her about the change in therapists. It's so wonderful to see such a willingness to work together! We feel like we have a fantastic team, and Audrena will just thrive with that kind of cooperation. Every day I am amazed that Boys Town is over 2 hours away from here, yet everyone here seems to know everyone there in some manner!

Edited to Add: After I wrote this blog post, Randy informed me that Audrena said "more" a couple times during speech as well. Yay! Way to go, Audrena!