Lizzie is a walker! She usually only does 2 or 3 steps at a time, but she can take as many as 6 or 7, and then she plops down. We're trying to have her practice as much as she's willing, but it's slow going. I'm sure before long she'll be running and I'll be asking myself, "Why again did I want her to walk?" She does better with the walking if she can hold a toy in her hand. Not a stationary toy, mind you, just something to hold onto. I guess it gives her a feeling of security. Her therapist said that's not uncommon for a lot of kids.
We are also trying to get Lizzie to make more sounds. She blows raspberries and makes loud "aaaaaaah" noises, and sometimes she even shrieks loudly in the key of "ear-splitting". I keep saying she's going to sing soprano in the choir someday. But she doesn't vocalize a lot of consonant sounds; occasionally, but not often. She says "mama" and knows that it goes with me, and she says "no" but I'm not sure she really knows what that one means. Once in a while we'll get a "dada" out of her too. We have tried teaching her some signs: more, finished, milk, water, eat, drink, peach, and cheese, and waving for hi and bye-bye. "More" and waving are the only ones she does consistently, but we'll keep working on it.
The doctor keeps saying that she is going to have developmental delays, but so far we haven't really noticed any big ones. Maybe language is going to be where we see a delay? Time will tell.
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