About 5 seconds? of free standing, spontaneous today.
We played with a toy phone, and Liam said "Hi" into it. (Marisa points out it only sort of sounds like "Hi," but I'll go with it -- although we never say "Hi" into a phone. I think maybe it's his attempt to say "Hello." In any case, his vowel vocabulary now includes the I sound.)
We now have Miss Donna, a helper who knows her way around children with disabilities, helping twice a week around lunch. Here's hoping she can get that boy to stop deliberately dropping his milk bottle on the floor:
and to communicate his lunch preferences without throwing food. This is his "I'm too cute to have to feed myself" look.