Exciting times in the World of L...

This is an exciting time in the world of L. It seems like everyday, sometimes every hour, he learns something new. This morning, while we were quietly playing at the very early morning hour that L gets up, he tapped the side of my hip while looking at Sadie, and then when she didn't come to the bed, tapped the side of the mattress. Without even realizing it, this is what J and I both do to get Sadie to come over to us! So he really is watching for our "signs" even if they aren't ASL! Just a few hours later, while I was trying to put him down for his nap, he heard the garbage truck outside, and said "Tuck" and then I said, "That's right, a truck" followed by the sign, which he immediately replicated, and of course I couldn't help but beam in amazement, pride, and wonder--even though we were really trying to go down for a nap--instead we "talked" about the truck, then the fan, and the light, and the dog he heard barking, and then he went to sleep. No need to be too inflexible when such wondrous moments like this occur and my little guy works so hard to communicate with me. He is also getting braver about wondering off by himself and with standing tall without support. Later on in the afternoon, he was playing with a talking alphabet fridge toy, the song goes something like "Every letter makes a sound and "C" says "Kaah" and "SSSS," at which point he mimicked the sound with a long "ssss" sound and smiled and pointed for me to press it again. We'll definitely try to get a video of it for all to see because it is pretty darn cute.

**And tooth #7 has finally broken through, so that is 4 on the top and 3 on the bottom!