Fun day for mommy - great progress for Megan

As always it is amazing what some sleep will do for Megan.  She has slept for the past 2 nights and took naps two days in a row too.  This morning she was feeling so happy and definitely well rested.  We were sitting on the couch reading books with Megan's talker beside me.  She would reach for it and grunt, etc asking for it and I would get it for her.

I decided to work with her on a sign for her talker so she could ask for it without grunting and also when it wasn't in the same room; so the next time she asked for it I said "Megan, here is how you ask for your talker" and I showed her the sign with my hands and then helped her do it with her hands, then I gave her the talker.  The next time she started requesting it I said "how do you ask for your talker?" and then 3-5 seconds later she did the sign.  I praised her and confirmed that she said talker and gave it to her.  This scenario happen again, she grunted, I prompted, she did the sign; and then the next time she requested it I was just silent and ignored her.  She kept pointing and grunting for 20-30 seconds and then she stopped, worked to get her hand into the right position (just her pointer finger out) and touched her other palm.  She did the sign without me prompting on just the 3rd time she wanted it since I showed it to her; and then she BEAMED when I said "you want your talker".  She was so proud of herself and I was so very proud of her.

What was great was she did the same thing one more time, where she grunted first, I ignored and then she did the sign and THEN she started just doing the sign.  She would do the sign, I would acknowledge it and she would smile.  Most of the time she didn't even want her talker, she would just push it away but she was so very happy that she could ask for it and I understood her.  She did this for the rest of the day - just doing the sign and asking for her talker.

After nap, though she didn't sleep today, we played with her tea set for the first time. Meaning we played with it correctly.  I showed Megan how to pour the "tea" from the pot into the cups, and then stir and drink.  She was pouring into my cup, her cup and sometimes Sam's cup.  She would stir her cup and drink from it.  She was doing great.  I had so much fun, it was really difficult not to tear up because it was such a big step for her to just sit there and play with me without throwing, putting the toys into her mouth and to be pretending so well.