This is so crazy, I have to share.
Wyatt seriously just said "12 o'clock". We were
sitting on the couch together watching his favorite Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
episode, the one with the train, and out it came out of his mouth. I know he's
just repeating it because he has this episode memorized but not even 6 months
ago he was just making random sounds. I always said he was calling his whale
friends because that’s what his sounds reminded me off, whales singing and
calling each other. He has made some huge progress trying to speak over the
last few weeks and seemed to pick up 5 new words each day. However, today
totally caught me by surprise. 5 years of working with him one on one and
letting him binge-watch his favorite shows has taught him to vocalize and
sing/hum (Happy Feet), to communicate in signs and learn his ABCs and numbers
(Signing Time), and now he's learning to talk and add simple numbers (Mickey
Mouse Clubhouse). CRAZY but it works!
The fact that he could say “12 o’clock” today and has the comprehension
of that phrase representing time, it opens up so many questions in my mind. How
much does he really understand but simply can’t communicate yet? He has finally
started to put signs together in the last couple of months. He’s been more
descriptive and explains what he wants and why, and he even tells me about his
day at school now. With that he has also started to say more and more words,
though sometimes not easily understandable, but you could always tell that he
has so much more to say. Now I wonder what is really going on in this head of
his. Yesterday, Calvin, his 7 year old brother asked him what’s 1+1 and he
immediately answered 2. I mean, what other knowledge is this little mystery
mastermind hiding from us?
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