Yesterday evening Mike, Gregory and I were sitting on the back porch.

Gregory was playing with Mike then wanted to rinse off his feet (the chickens are in the back yard, so he had poop on his feed).  He kept showing us, and knowing that we normally would just get up and turn on the water to rinse them off.

Instead, Mike took Gregory’s hand and put it on his mouth and said “water”…trying to get Gregory to say it. Finally, I suggested “wa-wa”.  Gregory said it!!! WOOT!

Then, Gregory saw some planes overhead and pointed excitedly to them.  Mike did the same thing and Gregory said “plane”.

This went on for about 30 minutes, I would say, and Gregory ended up saying not only those words, but “bird” and “splash”.

We were so excited. I hope this is the start of major communication. Not getting to hopeful, but any words is a great improvement.