Mr. Chatterbox

Tate's speech-language pathologist has started his final evaluations. They are releasing him from services so he can attend preschool in the fall. He will finish his evaluation next week. In the last eight months, he has made AMAZING progress!! His vocabulary has gone from about 20 words to uncountable. In honor of his accomplishment, I thought I would share a few stories.

Tate climbed up on my lap and said what sounded like,  "s'up?"

Michael says,  "say 's'up, G?'"

Tate: "s'up, Jeep?"

"Mayer's eating his fist bump."

Me: Why do you call me Sarah?

Tate: Because it your name, Sarah!

Tate lingo: stunk = skunk, yummies = food/ something to eat (We cannot seem to get him to say he's hungry.), launch chairs = lawn chairs, choke up = threw up, Jewy-Nana = Julianna (cousin), JaceGage = Jace and Gage (cousins), GrammaPa = Grandma and Grandpa he calls Pa

His space knowledge: "Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong goed on moon first. Michael Collins (or sometimes he says daddy) orbited moon." 

Discussing why the recent space shuttle launch has been delayed. He was going to the Cosmosphere to watch it: 

Me: "Oh no, Tate, they can't launch Endeavor today!"

Tate: "Why?"
Me: "Because they found a problem with one of the thermostats on a fuel line and they want the astronauts to stay safe."
Tate: "Why?"
Me: "So Endeavor doesn't have an accident and the astronauts don't get hurt."
Tate: "Haves accident?" Then he thinks about this for a while and says, "Challenger blowed up." (He knows this because he and Daddy checked out several books on space disasters at the library.)
Me: "Yes, it did, when Mommy was a little girl."
Tate: "Co-wombia blowed up too."

"These boots just decided to jump on my feet today!"

His progress has been amazing and I'm so proud of him! We definitely have to be careful what we say now because he will repeat it. It may not be right after we say it, but he will surprise us with it later. Those little ears are always listening!