Update on Lexie

Lexie started speech therapy about 2 months ago. The therapist comes about once a week and helps stimulate Lexie's speech through various activities, but also spends a lot of time training me on how to interact with Lexie and manipulate situations that force her to talk more. It is definitely not natural for me, so it's taking a lot of work on my part to try to implement the practices the therapist is teaching me. But Lexie is making good progress. When she first started therapy in July, she could say about 20 words or word approximations and she had never put two words together. Now she can say about 60 words or more (I'm sure there are more that I'm not remembering) and she is more consistently using two words together although most of her two word phrases involve the word "me" or "more". A lot of her words are still missing some consonant sounds, and of the 13 vowel sounds, she still can't say 3, but her word approximations are a big step and at least Justin and I can usually tell what she is saying. So YEAH for Lexie!