Two Word Sentences

The boys' verbal development has been progressing in spurts and jumps.  It's like they know the words and terms, they just have to develop the ability to say them.  The words are in their little heads.  We just have to puuuuuullllllllllllllllllllllll them out.

AJ's a regular blabbermouth lately!

Mark told him to sit down and watch the Wiggles (rather than trying to mess with the TV volume and channels) and AJ muttered "sit down."

I washed his hands in the bathroom and he reached for the toilet on his way out.  I said "don't touch!" and AJ repeated, as he walked out into the hall, "don't touch."

AJ goes outside to play during his breaks from therapy, and he can't open the back door so he has been taught to look up at whoever is working with him and say "help me."  Or more like "hep me."

When we show AJ pictures of either him or his brother, he thinks they are all of Zack.  Any picture of one of the two of them, he'll point at and say
"Sack." (Can't seem to pronounce the Z quite yet.)
Then we'll say "no, that's you." 
And AJ will say "you?" 

And then we'll say "no, say ME."
Then AJ repeats, "me."

What can you do -- it's confusing being identical twins, even if you didn't have Fragile X!  Sometimes we don't know who we are looking at in pictures, either.

AJ also has invented a name for his grandpa, which every good grandson should do; he calls him Pa.

Zack's latest big verbal accomplishment is a bit less fancy -- he came up to me wanting me to get him some chocolate milk, and while I tried to get him to say "milk" he tapped me on the shoulder repeatedly, saying "mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom. mom."

It's the most beautiful word.