Clare started "talking" today. After months of waiting, she is finally talking! Well, using consonants anyway.
Clare is a fairly quiet baby (especially compared with her somewhat loud-mouth 3-year old brother - okay, non-stop chatterer!). She does say "ooooh" and "aaaah," but that's about it. Then this morning, she woke up and decided today was the day to expand her repertoire. By the end of the day, Clare was also saying "na na na," "ga ga ga," and "da da da" (the latter one is only due to the fact that Shawn repeated it incessantly throughout the day because he is determined these will be Clare's first words). And she was talking almost all day long. She just didn't stop the baby babble!
For those of you unfamiliar with the delays of Williams Syndrome, the typical age for actually speaking words for kids with WS is 3 years old. So we expect Clare to be delayed in this area. We are starting to teach her sign language in the hope that we can help her communicate prior to being able to do so verbally. But we were so excited to hear her make some more progress! And she sounded so gosh darned cute with her new vocabulary!
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