Sophia has become obsessed with phones. Everything is a phone, she'll hold up anything to her ear and say "hello", "whozis?" and "bye". If I ask her who she's talking to it's usually Stanley, dada or lalala (lily).
One night at dinner I was telling Scott how Sophia used her stroller belt buckle as a phone on the way home, as an example that anything will work for a phone. So Scott picked up her juice sippy cup, held it to his ear and said "hello?". Sophia scowled, took the cup away, put it down. Then she looked straight at Scott, pointed at the cup and said "bottle!", then she looked at me and repeated, "bottle".
Apparently, there are limits to the telephone game, and drinks are never, ever to be phones!
She also had a really cool way of saying bottle, that she's phasing out of already. You know when you hold your hand to your mouth and do the indian cheer, wahwahwah, and the sound sort of vibrates? Well, she figured out that if she said the "ba" sound, then did the indian wahwah sound, it got pretty close. For about a month sophia has been wandering around asking for bottles by doing the indian sound. Just this week she's figured out how to make a good bottle word without using her hands.
We're also still signing, and we get a lot of comments and compliments in public. We sign for help, please, want, more, light, fan, all done, and we're working on thank you, but that one is not coming very well. Sometimes if she's frantic for something 'help', 'please' and 'more' all get pushed together in a scrambled commotion of "please god let one of these work!"
She also understands so much. Everyday I'm surprised by how much she takes in. I give her quite complicated instructions and she nods slowly and gets to work. She brought me some diaper rash cream yesterday that she wanted to play with. I said to her "sophia, this isn't a toy, but I put lotion in one of the drawers, you can play with that. The lotion is in the drawer next to the one this came from". I didn't think she'd get it and I was preparing for a temper tantrum, which we've had a LOT of. Instead, she nodded, got up and went to her toy drawers and pulled out the one beside the diaper change stuff. I was amazed. That seemed so complicated and convoluted, yet she seemed to get the gist. (Of course, I was wrong about which drawer the lotion was in and when she opened the one without the lotion she got sidetracked by a tambourine and never got the lotion!)
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Awwww! GREAT stuff! Sofia is very smart! Gabe is now picking up items for a telephone too, and he's usually calling daddy. It's so freaking cute, I can't stand it. Of course, he's right into the real phone and it's a good workout trying to get it from him. I love your new blog!
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