Done, Gone and Now but no Milk for you

Peanut has added 3 very important words to his vocabulary, "gone", "done" and "now". The reason that these words are so important is because they are so generic and can really help him communicate what he needs and wants to other people. He uses them all the time and sounds like a little dictator with his new found vocabulary. "Wa Wa Now, Mama!" So we are encouraging his manners and making him add "please" but we are so secretly excited about his dictatorial ways that we don't really mind. After Papa Bear goes to work he marches around the house exclaiming "Papa gone." His "gone" does sound similar to "done" as he can't get the hard g sound at the beginning of words on a regular basis unless it is tapped out and segmented but it easy to know which he means based on the context of what he is saying. (easy for me anyway, I don't know about others).

He did lose a word/sound with all of this other progress. He used to say "milk" beautifully. But as he drove through our pretend McDonalds drive-thru on his bus ride-on toy he was all of a sudden requesting a "bulkbake" instead of a "milkshake". I tried but couldn't get him to use the "mmm" sound at the begining of the word even when segmenting it and tapping it out. I am going to bring this up at his next speech therapy session on Monday.

Peanut has been corn-free for about a week now. I have seen some progress in his speech but I think that we are facing a detox time because he has been cranky and whiney more than normal and is asking to take his nap earlier and earlier. I think that coming off of high-fructose corn syrup just took a toll on his sugar levels. We are sticking it out and thinking that even if it doesn't help his apraxia, it is healthier to not have the large amounts of high-fructose corn syrup that was in everything from his cereal, yogurt, maple syrup, ketchup etc.