Another breakthrough!  Yesterday afternoon my youngest cousins who are 6 and 8 came over and made quite an impression on my 3 year old son Mikey.  They were all playing with playdough and Mikey started to repeat the words that the boys were saying.  It was fabulous! I don't think he knew what they were talking about but just the mere fact that he was talking makes me so hopeful.  He is a shy child though and it takes some time for him to warm up to faces that he hasn't seen for awhile.  I don't know if that is normal?  Mikey has not had much exposure to kids of his own age since we have been on holidays for 3 months and back home he hasn't had much exposure either.  When we get back we will be enrolling him into a playgroup again.

Today was a shock for me. My nearly 3 year old has speech delay till now  just to let u know and we weregrocery shopping in woolies and I was giving him jelly beans and to my surprise he started saying the colours of each jelly bean he was eating.  I was over joyed!  And tonight he was in the highchair and I have been teaching him for about a week the word 'out' and he never says it himself without me saying it first.  When I went out of the room to get something I could hear him say outloud 'get out'! Wow, another progressive step forward. I'm so excited. All the support from all the parents on here makes me feel so hopeful.