Landri's first "word"

We have exciting news!  First word may be stretching it.....just a tad.... :-) BUT Landri made what I would call her first step toward speaking!  One of our tasks given to us from Landri's Teacher of the Deaf (TOD) was to give Landri a little airplane and keep one for ourselves and wave it in the air making the "ahhhhhhh" sound at different pitches.  We do it all the time, all different ways, with all different games and she would just smile at us so sweet or sit there and hum.  Then she started to "dance" by swaying her head back and forth everytime we did it so we knew she was hearing it because she was bopping to the beat.  Then Greg and I are sitting on the floor talking one night and out of the blue Landri picks up her little airplane and waves it in the air and goes "aaaaaaaa".  It wasn't "ahhhhh" like in awesome like we have been practicing, but "aaaaa" like in cat - but we will take it!  We practically fell over and Greg was scrambling for the camera.  She has done it like 5 or 6 times since - never on cue of course when we prompt her to do it.  Typical girl - everything on her own terms. ;-)  So whenever she wants to get our attention she pulls out all the stops and waves her airplane saying her first "word" and she knows everyone will stop what they are doing, praise praise praise her and then she is back to being the center of attention.  The perfect life. :-)