Milestone!!

Today she pointed!
Over the past week or so she has begun handing me things to help her with.
She hands me string so she can cut it.
She hands me a pencil so I will write...so she can erase.
She puts her (dirty) shoe in my lap so I can tie it.
And in the past couple of days she has taken to handing me the pencil so she can have me trace her hand.
Today she kept handing me the magnetic pencil so I could write letters on the little doodle board...so she could erase them.
I decided to see if I could get her to point.
It took me about 10 tries and suddenly she started forming a point with her own hand!
Immediately the "light came on" and she pointed by herself!!
I wrote the letter she had pointed to.
She stopped. Looked up at me. Intensely leaned close to my face, and opened her eyes really wide.
And smiled.
She got it.
She realized the power she had to make a decision. Suddenly she knew that she had control over what I would write on the board.

Oh, the little joys of my day :)

Victories

Tuesday she asked me for help by putting her shoe on my lap. That same day she learned the difference between "small" and "big" shapes. She's beginning to make eye contact. Today she watched me blow my nose, then imitated me when I put a tissue up to her nose. In the last two days she has taken to untying her shoes just to watch me tie them. She watches intently. She copies facial expressions and some non-voice sounds in the mirror. She smiles at me. Today I learned she hates rain in her hair. She learned how to open the umbrella.
Little victories.
I love this little girl.