We've been home for about one week and have been drilling everyone with what they thought of Drew's progress.  Both of Drew's grandmothers felt that his hands were more relaxed than usual.  I remember thinking the same thing after our first trip but then within a couple months his hands tightened back up again.  Also, both grandmothers noticed that Drew is talking considerably more.  He can now combine a few syllabels to form a few words like "bug" and "bus."  It's funny that he started doing this because he started saying these words before his first stem cell treatment in the beginning of April.  Dianne, Drew's speech pathologist, taught him this on the plane ride over.  In case you missed some of the earlier blog posts, she flew with us to China and spent a couple of weeks with us helping out with Drew.

The biggest news I have however pertaining to Drew's speech is that he has been able to say "ma ma" on request.  He's been able to "ma ma" once in a great while over the past couple of years but we think it was due to accident.  However, for the past few consecutive days he has been able to say "ma ma" when we ask him to.  Go Drew!

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