I have to admit, I was beginning to get a little concerned that Isaac wasn’t talking AT ALL by his 15 month check up.
He would just point at things and grunt.
Max and his Dad just thought it was cute and constantly said, “he’s gonna be like his Daddy”, but for a little while I thought there could be something wrong with him. Fortunately, Carol reassured me that there would be many more signs if he were autistic or something, and that he was simply a slow talker. She recommended that I call the infants and toddler program and get him started with speech therapy early.
A speech therapist came to the house to evaluate him, and recommended that we make an apointment for January, but by the time he was 16 months, he finally said something! I actually wrote it down just to reassure myself. Within the next couple weeks, he began to say other words too so I cancelled the appointment.
12/10/10 Yes, duck, Nana, hammer, “eesh”= trees, ice, hot
Yay! I was so excited. . . but then he stopped learning new words and he was getting to be close to 18 months now, the age at which both Luke and Andrew seemed to learn at least 15 new words a day! I started to get a little nervous again, but then he would surprise me and say a new word every couple of days.
At the 18 month check up, Carol said he should be able to say at minimum 15 words. I went home and wrote down all the words he says now, just to see and here they are:
yes- yesh
fish – fitsh
ice
hot – ha
shoes – ish
Chup-pop
Mama
Dada
Banana – nana
Apple
Stairs
Bye Bye
nose – nn
eye – ah
ball –buh
please – pees
bath – bat
