Little things that are BIG

Monday: Liam just said "mama help".  I have been prompting him to say "help please" for ages and he will repeat it when I have prompted him.  This was the first time he did it without any prompting from me.  What a useful thing to be able to communicate!

Tuesday: "good morning Lupe "  "mmm yummy mama". "thank you mama". unprompted

Wednesday: Liam offers me a cheerio and I say no thank you.  Then he laughs and says "Liam mouth, Boca".  My bilingual boy

Tuesday of another week:  "that one".   "Other side" 

He put a ball in my shirt and said "baby tummy".

Yesterday at the park he saw a cup on the ground and said "dirty".   This is a big one too because I don't think he has seen us picking up trash in public and throwing it away very often and he sometimes needs prompting him to throw things away.  It was a very good connection

He now brings me a book and says "read".   He had lots of favorites and says them by name.  

Liam probably has around 150 words or more that he can say.  But what I am seeing recently is him not just saying words or repeating me but actually using spoken language to communicate his needs.  THIS is important. 

Wait, and did I already mention that he says "thank you mama" spontaneously? That's just awesome for any three year old  I think.