Dear Carolyn,
Today you shocked me with two startling new developments. First, you will now blow your nose on cue. It may be a small thing, but when a nose runs as much as yours does it’s a pleasant alternative to fighting you to wipe it.
Second of all, I’ve discovered that you know the locations of a dozen different body parts. Today you found your nose, eyes, ears, mouth, teeth, tongue, hair, hands, fingers, feet, toes and belly button. Elbows and knees still stump you, though. Considering that I never actually intentionally taught you these things it astounds me that you’ve figured them out anyhow.
What else do you know that you’re not sharing?!?
Love, Mommy
Your new signs this month are “eat”, “baby”, “down”, “duck”, “daddy”, “cat”, “book”, “pear”, “cereal”, “potty”, “hot”, “ice cream”, “bird”, “thirsty”, “light”, “yes”, “cold” and “happy”. Honestly, there may be more but I can’t keep up – you’re learning them so quickly and you surprise me all the time with ones that I’ve never signed with you before that you’ve picked up from our videos. You’re now up to 52 (or more) signs.
You’re learning to use a spoon, and we’ve experimented with a fork. You’re still not a huge fan of meat of any sort, but you’ve learned so many food signs that I can ask if you want an apple or a banana and you can tell me. There are meals when you eat as much as I do, and then there are times when you eat two bites of food and say you’re all done. I’m not too worried though, because those two bites are generally something healthy like broccoli. In fact, we’ve witnessed you passing up cookies for broccoli. I hope you always make that choice!