Word explosion

To quote Jackie the speech therapist, "we have a talking kid now!"  In the last week Dexter has finally gotten his word explosion and is talking up a storm.  He is saying several new words every day, describing pictures in multiple word sentences and really feeling more comfortable talking. 

Our speech goals for the rest of the summer are correct sound production and longer word strings.  He still has three areas that need more work: vowel distortions, omissions of final sounds (pea for please) and sound substitutions (buk for bug)

He is happy that he can gets his needs/wants across now and Dan and I are happy to know what he wants!  This should make it a lot easier also when Nana and Grandfather come in 10 days to watch him while we are on our cruise.  Yea!