Yes You Can

The most amazing thing happened today, Sam began to read again. Her first words that she read were "Yes you can", which happened to be on the cover of an old Vogue magazine about Barack Obama. I was so taken aback that I asked her to try and read some other words on the cover, which she was able to do. I then took out the news section of the Sunday paper and she was able to slowly read some of the headlines as well. She could not make out all of the words, but she did pretty well, and I know she was understanding what she was reading. We also had some comic relief today. Sam sometimes says nonsensical words when she is trying to communicate. Today that happened a bit, and all of us, including Sam started laughing. I think Sam recogonized that the words were not what she meant to say, but they were funny nontheless and so, throughout the afternoon, we would sometimes just start laughing and couldn't stop, including Sam. With Donna Summers playing in the background, and Sam's beach volley ball being batted around between the four of us (Wendy, Aileen, Sam and I), Disco Sunday turned out to be a great all around day.