One and a Half Years Old

Brandon turned one and a half yesterday. I can't believe my baby is now closer to being two than one. He has changed so much in the past year. He goes to the pediatrician tomorrow for his 18 month well visit so I will update tomorrow with his length and weight.

Brandon has been doing so many new things in the past week. He claps all of the time now. And he claps the right way. He no longer claps his one hand on the back of the other hand but claps both hands together the way that he should. He dances whenever he hears music now. It is really cute. A lot of the time he gets his head involved with his dancing by shaking it back and forth. Brandon continues to say Elmo all day long. He just loves him.

Brandon had speech yesterday. He has a DI (developmental intervention) teacher work with him. I was a little confused about why it was a DI and not a speech therapist so I called his coordinator and she said that they don't get a speech therapist until they are 28 months old. Before that they have a DI to work on language prerequisites. She heard him say Elmo several times. She worked on him with animal sounds. He says a monkey sound and he was making a roaring noise with his throat when she said roar for a lion. She also worked on the sign for more with him again. He claps his hands together for more. I think he is confused between the symbol for more and clapping since they are similar. It did sound like he was saying more several times after she said more.

Sorry for the lack of pictures. Our new computer broke so we have the old one hooked up and it doesn't have a card reader. We are going to look for our old card reader. If not I will post a bunch of pictures when the computer is fixed.