Speech

Very happy to be able to report that Noah's speech continues to progress wonderfully.  It is one of the primary cognitive areas that is controlled by the area of the brain that was impacted by Noah's stroke and, subsequently, had been of concern to us.  But, our amazing little boy continues to amaze us and everyone else as his speech, for all intents and purposes, is progressing at a "normal" rate (whatever that is).

This morning I was extra happy to see him as I hadn't since Sunday evening...I actually had to wake him up this morning, which is unusual.  As soon as I woke him up, he proclaims that he's "all done with nap," and asked "where's mommy.  Go to work?"  After I got him dressed, he followed me into our bedroom where I proceeded to finish getting dressed, myself - he walked right into our closet to help pick out "daddy's shirt!"  He has all sorts of words and phrases these days...and puts together a few short sentences, as well.  He often surprises, not only with his comprehension, but also with words and phrases we don't realize he knows.  Tonight, I took him for my run and he said, "go for a run around the circle?".  We were also listening to some Elmo music on Pandora during dinner (occasionally a shameless bribe) and a voice came on that he properly identified as "Elmo's daddy."  I then asked him who Noah's daddy is, expecting him to perhaps point to me, but he just said, "Brad!" and started hopelessly giggling!  It's a fun age, but also one where we need to be careful what we say!

First Giving page coming tomorrow...once again we'll be trying to raise money for CHASA which helps raise awareness as well as families in our same situation that are less fortunate.  Thank you in advance!