Comments on: In Photos: Love and Hate

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:05:52 +0000

My best friend’s son turns 2 in March and has no words at all. He just grunts. Her older son was the same way, until suddenly he couldn’t shut up. Now he’s 4, and he is more articulate than most adults. Kids are taking everything in, all the time. They need to make the transition on their own. Yours will, too.

Another language story: a friend’s sister taught her daughter sign language when she was a baby. Full-on ASL signing with proper sentence construction. The kid didn’t speak at all. No grunts, no sounds. But she could sign, fluently. Then, when she was about three, she signed to her mother for “milk”. Mom was sitting, talking and not paying attention. So she tapped her mom on the shoulder and said, “Mommy, may I please have a glass of milk?” My friend’s sister fell out of her chair.

By: LooneyJen

LooneyJen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:14:33 +0000

Many good wishes for answers! He sure is cute. And he definitely knows how to torment his sister. Highly developmentally normal :)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:10:43 +0000

Ahh hair pulling. My favorite. My 2 yr. old enjoys sitting on her sister’s head(almost 5) with two fist fulls of hair. My toddler was also a late talker with her go to words being “ba” for bottle and “Meh” for get me one now, I mean RIGHT now, DO IT!!

By: Sandy W.

Sandy W. — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:09:51 +0000

I think it’s always good to get an early assessment if there are concerns. Our oldest (age 6) has high functioning autism and we think he falls in the “high functioning” category BECAUSE we got very early intervention. Now his differences between his peers are hardly recognizable.

We also had our youngest (who is now almost 3) diagnosed at that age because he wasn’t talking much either. Turns out he’s completely typical. Now we can hardly get him to stop talking. It certainly did ease our minds though to have the evaluation done by the speech therapist back when he was younger. I hope your minds are eased too.

By: KGS

KGS — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:58:04 +0000

Yup, those photos pretty much encapsulate what being a big sister is like! Good luck with everything.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:57:02 +0000

HI AJ,

Good for you for taking some action about your concerns surrounding your son’s development. Best case, you find out he is just fine. If he needs some help, you are getting him help early.

I’ve been enjoying your blog for a long time now. Thanks for providing lots of laughs! I especially loved your Folkmanis puppets and Playmobile posts.

Karen

By: Sarah M

Sarah M — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:04:34 +0000

So cute. I wouldnt worry too much about the speech, my son only had one word (cat) and as soon as he turned 2 he’s started labeling things, a bunch of half words, appa (apple), nee (bunny), brimbo (rainbow), hamma (hammer), sta (star) and really a whole bunch of new words in such a short time, he’ll speak when he’s good and ready.

By: RobMonroe

RobMonroe — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:35:07 +0000

Love the pictures!

I have several friends that have had speech pathologists come in and help out n great ways. I hope that the same is true for you.