Maddy

She's getting her speech eval the morning of November 17th. However, she has been improving lately with some language-like behaviors. She has just started pointing at things this week. She also now gets excited when she sees Ginger and Strider and babbles at them when she sees them. The lady I talked to at Regional Center did remind me that Maddy is technically premature, so there would be some expected lag in development that should "catch up" by age 2. But as she approaches 18 months she still only has "mama", "no", "uh-oh", and "bye-bye" as well as some intermittent "dada." I'm quite certain that during the evaluation Maddy will totally start busting out with complete sentences and the evaluators will look at me like I'm an idiot for even referring her.