Big Night for Verbal Skills

Before tonight, Andrina spoke 30+ words and has said one three-word phrase, "I love you". Her saying that phrase has everything to do with me encouraging her to say it for over a month now. It was not something she said completely on her own.

Well, tonight during her story-time, she hit a few more verbal milestones. When she saw a picture of a baby in one of her books, instead of just saying, "baby" like she usually does, she uttered her first spontaneous two-word phrase. Andrina said, "hi baby" and waved at the baby too!

Then when we were reading the word "horse" (which she can read because she points at her ride-on-toy horse when she sees the word), she pointed at the horse and I said "horse" and asked her to say it too. Which she did! Add another word to her 30+ list!

Last one for the night: when I turned off her lights and turned on her stars that are projected onto the ceiling and walls and showed them to her (like I do every night because she likes looking at her stars), she repeated the word "stars" for me when I asked her to! Yea! Two new words added to the list!