OK I am eating my hat.

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

DS1 is saying Mummy properly and with meaning. He must have ready my thread last week, because he definitely wasn't. It changed over the weekend (must have been the surfing ). Apparently he sits in school saying 'mummy' and signing home.

[bullet123]

That is wonderful . It reminds me of a few months ago, when you said how he didn't care about Chistmas and then he grabbed his dad's hand to take hi mdownstairs to get the decorations .

[dustystar]

Thats wonderful

[streakybacon]

Chuffed to bits for you jimjams

[misscutandstick]

oooh JJ thats fantastic!

[allytjd]

Yurt, how exciting for you all.

[sphil]

Oh this is FANTASTIC Jimjams. I was just thinking the other day about how good he was about walking 'our speed' on the beach that day we met - if you think of all the progress he's made in the last year it's just amazing.

[anonandlikeit]

Fantastic & just the BEST word for him to pick

[sickofthisrain]

oh, lovely news. I had a long wait for it too, and it's still only really "bubby" here.

[MmeLindt]

That is fantastic, you must be so proud of him

[Troutpout]

fantastic

[MommyUpNorth]

Brilliant!

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

Lots of Mummy's again tonight, but Daddy came out as 'Mummy" so we may need to work on that. He knew he'd said it wrong though, which is also new......

[theheadgirl]

What a star - this is my favourite sort of thread Well done to your boy

[drowninginlaundry]

oh wow, and you thought he'd never speak!

DS1's speech has also come on loads in the past two weeks. Loads. No new words as such but it's like he's trying, really trying. A combination of leaving London and Light on Literacy maybe?

[Seuss]

yay!

[sphil]

DS2 only says it in answer to the question 'What's my name?' (and even then he says his own name half the time) which makes me suspect it's rote learnt rather than functional. He does say Grandpa though .

Slightly off the point JJ - can DS1 recognise people in photos? And if so, has he always been able to? I'm pretty sure DS2 has a kind of 'face blindness' - finds it very difficult to recognise people, including himself. So names are bound to be tricky as a result I guess.

[Thomcat]

That is so utterly wonderful that it's very bloody hard to put it into words. I'm trying very hard not to get overly emotional but if you could see me now you'd see I'm not doing a very good job and clip me round the ear for being a soft get!

[jimjamshaslefttheyurt]

ds1 has always been very good with photos and people's name sphil (over active associative memory). Did you see the thread on here last week about face blindness and autism?

[TotalChaos]

well done DS1.

[wannaBe]

that is fantastic!

[daisy5678]

you must feel amazing!

[Blu]

oh, the little sweetheart.

I can imagine him sitting signing 'home' and saying 'Mummy'. Gorgeous boy.

[Twiglett]

oh wow

how amazing

I'm filling up here

and he needs a sign for shiatsu because...