How much, already?

[nosce]

Iris. My gosh does that girl ever amaze me.
She is suddenly a little girl- not a baby. It's like she burst into bloom overnight and has turned into this fierce creature full of will and ideas and happiness and fear and love and everything else. She is incredible.
She wants to know the sign for everything now- words like panda bear and pizza and

Comments

[amdragoste]

I am SO excited that Iris is learning ASL. I imagine that it's saved everyone a lot of frustration especially before she was using verbal words?

[nosce]

She doesn't have a lot of verbal words yet. The few she does have could be chalked up as having meaning through context- that because I've spent 14 months- roughly 10080 hours with her- I know that when she makes a sound like, "hah ee" she is saying "happy". It has been argued.
So anyway, if someone else (grandma, for example) knows a few basic signs or has been equipped with a baby-friendly ASL picture dictionary, playtime goes over a lot better. Signing "eat" for solids as opposed to "milk" for nursing has cleared a lot of confusion and frustration, for example. And "diaper" or "toilet" helps, too. :)

[amberskyfire]

Awww, she is getting so big now! Isn't it amazing how they grow and then one day they are a little person with so much spunk and desire to learn? Children are the best thing there is!

[sharya]

"Nur, nur, NUR!" That's exactly what my daughter called it too!

So sweet :)

[nosce]

It is sweet. I melt every time I see her make that special excited sound that she saves only for when she knows I'm about to give her my milk.