LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

Check out the ROUNDING of these lips!

After many, mANY, MANY months

of working toward this sound ...

.... WE FINALLY HAVE THE

LONG O AND OO!

(make sure to turn the music off on the left first)

Now, this video doesn't capture the /oo/ as well as he truly says it,

as he's not much of an on-the-spot performer and

says it quite well when the camera is not

close by. You may notice too, his first /oo/

sounds like /m/ which we always watch closely,

as these two sounds can be easily confused

and could show a mapping issue if Aiden were

to consistently confuse them.

Some words we've added to his vocabulary list,

or have made clearer with his new sounds are:

uh-OH

(instead of uh-um)

WHOA

(as in whenever he trips or falls, and with QUITE the emphasis I might add)

shjoo

(for juice)

mo-mo!

(no-no as he yells at the cats)

Elmo

(instead of just "elm")

mo

(instead of ma for more)

Now if we could get that dang /ee/ out of him.