Reading with L...

Now that L has a bit more words under his belt, he is really enjoying reading with us! This is a "long" video (about 3 minutes long) of Jim reading How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food. L kind of knew that he was being expected to perform a little for the camera, but he still complied somewhat. Except rather than our typical reading a book slowly where he finds the cat or the dog, everything that is out of place, and the food, he wanted to speedread it this time. Still cute; sometimes he fills in with words/sounds and others with signs, usually please and more; but this time I don't think he signed please since he skipped past that page fairly quickly. His favorite pages are the one where the spaghetti is all tossed up in the air and when the dinosaur sticks beans up his nose; thankfully, the beans up the nose is less interesting to him than the fact that the chairs and table are toppled over.



Other fun news and notes...L now sings E-I-E-I-O or some version of that, then signs that Old McDonald has a "cow"; if left to him, the poor farmer would only have a cow! He also appropriately provides a "POP" when "monkey thought it was all in fun...POP...goes the weasel". The other night, I overheard him in bed: "nigh nigh...mamma dada ooooh...e-i-e-i-e-i-ooo...mama dada oooh...nigh nigh oooh" very cute singing himself to sleep with his own song.

And today during a moment of frustration, we made up lyrics to "Shake the Sillies Out" to something about moving our mad out, clapping our crankyness out, shaking our frustration out, jumping our grumpies out, shouting our anger out (AAAH!) -- that was his favorite part; soon he was laughing and asking for more of the AAAH! part.