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OOps... I wasn't on the ball this week. I forgot to blog about Speech this week. Nothing mind-blowing. We played one new game (amongst old repetition). She forgot about his LOVE of numbers & brought a fishing game. At first, we couldn't pull his focus away from the 6 or 8 on the fish, but then we started calling them Blue Big Fish, and Red Little Fish and his focus shifted. This game was to teach turns. And, not just to teach him about taking turns, but that HE has a turn and its called 'MY TURN'. He was good at echoing 'My Turn', but never did it on his own. We've found that he will play the turn taking game with Sissy and their door toy quite well, and so we've found a good way to work on 'My Turn' at home too. This week was the first time he said 'BYE JEN' as she was leaving. Up until this point, he really wasn't even good at echoing greetings (hey, bye)... but he has started really picking up on Hey + waving and Bye + waving. Im quite impressed. Jen said it could take a long long time. I've also heard him say Bye-Bye ONCE without any prompting. He's on the verge of some new skills! YAY!!!