Speech and Feeding Therapy

Nate started speech therapy this week. He has improved quite a bit in the last several weeks but he's still  behind so they are going to start coming out once a month just to keep an eye on his progress. Nate officially says 5 words now even though some are only understood by Todd and I. He can say...
Dad - "Da"
dog - "dah"
apple - "Daaaa da" (this one is a stretch but he consistently says this when he sees an apple so we count it :)
yeah - this one he does pretty well
I love you - I posted a video of his version of this a few weeks ago. I wouldn't have counted it but the speech therapist said it was close enough.

Nate also started clapping last week! We have been waiting for this skill for a long time. It's the first step to other non verbal communication (like waving, pointing, and sign language) so it is very important for him to learn. Plus, it's just so darn cute!

The speech therapist is also a feeding specialist so she is going to try and help us out with feeding as well. Nate is much much better at eating these days but he still has some definite issues with certain textures. He eats a lot but his diet consists mostly of fruit, bread, cheese, milk, peanut butter, and of course chocolate. I'm hoping that with her help we can lengthen that list just a little bit :)

Here's a look at Nate's first Kit Kat. He's decided that chocolate is pretty delicious!

In other eating news, we are officially done with bottles! I don't know why I thought I could "encourage" him to drink from the sippy cup since I haven't been able to force him into anything else he didn't want to do. One day, he just decided he was done and that was that. I hope potty training comes as easily :)