Counting out

Mia has begun to count, which is very keen. Krys has been working with her for a while, and it's finally started to stick! She can easily count to five now, and a few times she has gotten up to seven. She loves three, though, which is weird - she'll count (in her parlance), "One, two, free, four, free, free, five." She isn't doing it as often as she was a couple of weeks ago, but three still remains her favorite. She can count fingers and ladybugs (Krys reads her Ten Little Ladybugs a lot) and I assume anything else we would want her to, but for now we're sticking with fingers and ladybugs.

She's been making this kind of slow progress in communication for a while now. Her speech therapist thinks it's only a matter of time before she has a speech explosion, but for now we're happy with the progress she's making, because it's more indicative of remembering and integrating stuff than just repeating it because we say it. So that's neat.

I apologize for the lack of pictures lately. I'll get some up soon. They're still as cute as ever!