Megan is "talking"

This morning when we got home from school Megan and Sam played in the toy room while I made lunch.  I then grabbed Megan's talker and went to get her out of the toy room.  I had opened the word 'eat' and pushed it while telling her it was time to eat.  I put the talker beside us during lunch and repeatedly pushed the 'eat' and 'drink' buttons while she was doing those activities.  I was modeling the behavior we want from her.

After lunch I took her into the toy room and she sat beside me with the talker.  She didn't want to go play with anything she just wanted to just it out.  I opened some animals so we could find them and hear what they were.  I had a toy in my hand and she would push go for me to activate it and then giggle when I would stop.  She pushed 'go' once without me saying "ready, set" first which is great.  She was checking out what words were on the screen and kept pushing 'play' and 'on'.  I added the word 'nap' and I said Megan are you ready for 'nap' and she pushed 'play'.  That is HUGE for her to be able to say (with one word at this point) no mommy I am not ready for nap I want to play more.  I did this with her 5 times over the period of about 10 minutes and sometimes she even responded with 'more play'; but every single time she answered me when I asked if she was ready for nap by telling me she wanted to keep playing.

I opened up a few more words for her so she could ask me to sing, which she loved doing and then I opened the words 'love' and 'dad'.  I then modeled saying 'love dad' for her a few times and she was so excited about it and then she signed 'love' and stroked my face.  I hadn't given her the option of 'mom' simply because I hadn't changed the picture to be me for that word yet, but she wanted to be able to say 'love mom' too.  My sweet, sweet little miss.

She was not happy to go to bed and leave her talker behind.  It was hard for me to put her in bed when she was so interested in it.  I love that she is excited about it.  We still have a long way to go but she is doing amazing.