Francesa made "raspberries" for the first time today! This is a BIG DEAL for her speech/language development and I am so, so happy! During her recent evaluations, all the "experts" asked if she is making raspberries yet. If you don't know what a raspberry is, just stick our your tongue and blow air between your lips - you made a raspberry!
From Wikipedia:
In the terminology of phonetics, this sound can be described as an unvoiced linguolabial trill [r̼̊]. It is never used in human language phonemically (i.e., to be used as a building block of words), but it is widely used across human cultures.
Yea, Cesca!
