Reading!

For those of you who Facebook, I added a few weeks ago about how Tristan is starting to read. He has added at least 20 more words to his reading vocabulary, and he is learning more everyday. It started as just a little experiment, we were working on sight words with Trinity on the chalkboard, and here is little bub, standing next to his sister, and before she has sounded out the word, he blurts it out...plain as day, "apple". Shannon and I both stared at each other in amazement. This is the same little boy that has so much difficulty forming any words, and he is reading. We added a few more simple words, "Cat, Dog, Boy, Girl" all of which he recognized and said. Though some of the words don't come out sounding like you or I would say them, they are definitely the words. He is doing so well, and he LOVES it. His home therapist works on adding new words every time they work together, and he amazingly remembers them the next time they play. So far, the words we have introduced and he has mastered are:
Cat
Dog
Ball
Apple
Mom
Dad
Albert
Papa
Boy
Girl
Computer
Go
Car
Star
Blue
Train
Kangaroo
Ball
Stop
No
Moon
Snow
Tree
There are more, but my list isn't right here. I think it is so awesome how he is able to do this, it opens so many more avenues to 2 way communication...I can't wait to see what he does next!