In typical Maddie fashion, she's waited until two days shy of her 2nd birthday to have a speech explosion.
Over the last several months, Maddie has added new words to her spoken vocabulary but been very selective on when she'll speak or repeat words. She's been able to understand 99% of what Eric and I say to her for a long time, but would use gestures instead of speech to communicate.
So, it's exciting for us to see her finally getting comfortable speaking and putting words together to form sentences.
Today during dinner, she said a couple of new words, so I responded with an excited, "AWESOME!". Then I asked Maddie if she could say awesome. Maddie looked at me with a huge grin on her face and repeated, "AWESOME!". She said it again several more times during dinner without being promted.
Totally Awesome.
