In case anyone was wondering, yes we are over the flu. Will got it the next day (surprise) and we didn't end up traveling to infect any relatives that weekend. Now we have colds. Will is pretty much over his, I guess I'm about half through mine, and if Claire's mood this evening is any indication, she might be coming down with hers tomorrow. (She was crabby and whining all afternoon and then this evening she refused to read books!!! A first! She just wanted to go to bed early instead, so we let her.)
Last week our day care provider was on vacation, so Mom and Dad were home more and Grandma Julie filled in for a day. We all read lots of 'Cars and Trucks and Things that Go' that week. Sometimes that book would be looked at 20 times in one day. I guess that it's no surprise then that Claire can quickly find Goldbug on every single page. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you really should find your kid a copy of the book, it's pretty much the best kids book ever.
Oh yeah, and other news here is that Claire is talking. She now says, with varying degrees of understandability (and repeatability, depending on her mood):
Mama
Dada
woof
mud
mouse
truck
book
bowl
hot
hat
dog
dot
She picks up sign language very quickly these days and uses these signs to help round out her vocabulary:
more
all done
milk
eat
airplane
baby
thank you
help
And did I mention she shakes her head "no" ? She uses that one frequently.
-K
1 comment:
After several months (or was it years?)of Will wanting to read Cars and Trucks and Things that Go upteen times/day, he was limited to ONE reading per day. This rule was imposed to preserve parental sanity. If Claire goes on long enough with her love of the book...a similar rule might legitimately be imposed. Have you discovered a new biological thruth? Are individual books genetically encoded or is this an example of a 'learned' phenomena becoming genetically encoded? Or is this just another example of a previously discarded theory?
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