Hunter is 27 months!

I thought I would write about my little man tonight.  I wanted to update on how his speech is going, and what Hunter is now up to!  He has been in speech for a little over 6 months now.  He is making progress, but it's still slow.  He still doesn't really say words unless he's asked to answer.  He is probably up to maybe 30 words he can say, but those include animal noises.  Hunter says mama, dada, AA (short a's) for Allie, more, yes, no go and uh-oh,.  Those are his everyday words.  We have heard him say down, on, off.  He has a two word phrase which is "one more."  Hunter loves letters and numbers. We really can't go to any store without him just rattling off numbers in the checkout line or letters in words he sees.  He's smart to not even be 2 1/2 yet.  He knows numbers 1-10 and can say them, or his version of them.  He knows 22 out of the 26 letters.  He will say them phonically though.  In therapy he's working on trying to say two letter functional words, like "up, on, my, etc."  He talks a lot with his baby babble.

Hunter just started Gymboree.  Allie also did this play and learn class when she was 2.  I love this place and so does Hunter.  I wish I could bottle up his excitement these past two weeks when he is in the class.  He is definitely attached to mama!  Brian has been traveling, which has been rough on Hunter.  He's also started crying when the babysitters come over, which is hard.  Hopefully this little phase will pass soon.

I have started keeping a little boy twice a week that is close to Hunter's age.  It's so much fun to watch them interact with each other.  Even though the little boy I am now keeping isn't quite two yet, he's got a good vocabulary, which I can see Hunter trying to say words that he says.  The other day, we were playing outside and the little boy was saying "Hi" and Hunter kept trying to do it, and finally his word was sounding like HI too.