Words

Today was a big day. But first, a touch of backstory. At Molly's therapy session last Tuesday we did another evaluation. When it was done, her therapist said she's catching up on everything but gross motor (walking) and receptive learning, meaning she understands sounds have meaning and can put them together. Her suggestions to help her with this included giving her simple commands, then demonstrating them over and over; talking her through anything considered a routine; and repeating everything she says over and over again. The desired outcome is to understand if we ask to her get a toy or something, and to start stringing words together to form a thought.

Which brings us to this morning.

Adam put his shoes on, and we said family prayer. As soon as we were finished Molly started saying 'bye' and waving her hand. Adam, being the amazing father he is, starting getting super excited that she was trying to talk to him. After about ten seconds she did it again, only this time it was "bye!...BYE DAD!!"

I couldn't be prouder! It truly is the simple things that have the most meaning.