Stop!

Over the last 6-8 months Luke has been able to say some words.  For a long time everything was “door”, but he would say it like “dough…dough…dough”.  He LOVES to play with doors.  Then after he started school I stopped hearing him say “door” and every now and then I’ll hear “go” or “more”.  I was so happy to hear these words, but I kind of miss “door”.  It was always so cute.

Well, now I’ll still hear “more” once and a while…especially when he is eating.  But, I haven’t heard “go” or “door” in a long time.  He speech therapist told me this is common.  Most children while learning to talk will have words and then drop them for a while and then they’ll come back later on.  He has done this with his sign language as well.  For quite a while he would sign “more”, “music”, “eat” and “go”.  Now he will only do “more” consistently, and once and a while he will do “go”.

Even though these words come and go, Luke will usually pick up new words to take their place.  The latest has been so funny.  He had to have picked it up at school too, which makes it even more funny…at least to me. 

One day he came home from school and he kept telling me to “stop”.  Of course it sounds more like “sta…sta”.  I just found this so funny because I would be doing something like feeding him and he would say “sta”, or I would be driving him somewhere and he would be constantly telling me to “sta”. 

He picked this up after only a few weeks at school, so he must be hearing his teacher and aide say “stop” an awful lot.  I just hope it isn’t because they’re telling him to “stop” constantly.