She actually looked us in the eye and responded. That was our Christmas present.

It was a good Christmas present for us to win.

This went on 24 hours a day.

We took her to therapy the next day, which was on New Year's Eve. The therapist said they would work on teaching her to speak again. By six that night, she was talking in complete sentences.

That was the best Christmas present I ever got.

Christmas present from Russian Santa Claus.