Sometimes you Hold 'em, Sometimes you Fold 'em

I remember thinking several months ago, as we were praying around the dinner table, “How in the world are we going to get AVH to fold his arms for prayer?!” I just couldn’t see it happening very easily. It never occurred to me that folding our arms was like a sign language sign. After all of our modeling, AVH has just started doing it on his own. We thought we caught him folding his arms a couple of times this week but this morning he crawled right over to us kneeling and stopped and folded his arms right along with us. What a cool moment! That’s one thing that I haven’t had to struggle to teach him, he just picked it up.




(He was way too quick with his arm folding for me to catch it on the camera – this is the best I got!)

His signing is really taking off. He is great at imitating new signs that he sees and it seems like he will do a new sign or two each time our speech therapist comes. Some of the signs he can do are: more, milk, Dad, thank you, all done, apple, cracker, dog, ball, night-night, car, eat, out, shoes, baby, cat, bubbles, no and bye-bye. In fact, we were at the park the other day and a little boy was watching us do some signing and he said to his mom, “Man that baby’s smart!” Of course I felt like one proud mamma!

Right now the only verbal words that he has are Uh-oh and Moo but we figured this part would take a while. He does give kisses now too – it is so cute but a little slobbery!

Every six months we have a meeting with all of our therapists and our support coordinator and we go over the goals that we have set for AVH. We see if he has met those goals and then we write new goals. We had this meeting yesterday. We checked off a lot of goals that he had met! And it was so nice to hear every single therapist talk about how they LOVE coming to work with AVH and they are so proud of the progress he is making. Our support coordinator hadn’t seen him in 6 months and she was blown away with where he is at right now with development. It has been an exciting time for our family. Man, he is a cutie and we love him!