Her first, and really still the only, word that she uses consistently and correctly is up. The funny thing about this "word" is that she makes it without any sound. She moves her mouth and occasionally a whispered sound comes out but not usually. Here is a video from almost a month ago when she was just learning how to say it.
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We have been working on signs with her for what feels like forever. We started with food, more and all done. She wasn't too interested in the idea until we introduced milk. She loves milk and loves to sign and ask for it. She learned that sign in less than a day and since then has also started using others more consisently. In addition to milk, she now signs "all done", "help" and "fire truck". If I'm lucky she will repeat "food" and or "sleep". It is helpful but we still have break-downs in communication. For example, the other day she was frantically signing "help help help" but I couldn't figure out what she wanted. Usually she does it when she can't reach a toy so I was looking around for something she wanted. She isn't great at pointing when she wants something so the possibilities seemed endless. Finally I found her book had fallen into the magazine basket under the side table. I retrieved it and she was happy. But it took a good few minutes (and an almost melt down) to figure it out. Also, today she went to the patio door and signed fire truck again and again. Poor girl didn't realize that I couldn't just summon the trucks and sirens whenever I wanted. (If I could, we'd hear a lot less of them! haha)
I don't have any pictures of her signing. But here she is chugging her milk to prove that she loves it. Sometimes you just have to get after it.
Another funny story, and the meaning of the title of this post, has to do with Brooke's new favorite word/sound. Moo! She has a few different toys that make the moo sound and know that it belongs to the cow. Animals can be tricky though, after all no two cows actually look the same. The other day we were driving and she was looking at a book about a hippo. She kept moo-ing and when I turned around she was be pointing at the hippo. I started to say.... "No, honey, that is a hippo, the hippo says..." But wait, what does the hippo say? So I gave in and moo-ed right along with her. She laughed and clapped. Excited to find another "cow" book.
Much of conference weekend we listened to her moo so we decided to try and get a video. Please excuse her lack of clothing.
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Brooke seems to ask permission sometimes. She will point to the kitchen and look at me. Since we've put the magnets in on the fridge usually she wants to go get them but is used to me telling her "no" when she goes into the kitchen by herself. I nod and say magnets or fridge and she gets excited and continues on her way.
And of course she also makes lots of non-sense sounds and words. The other day she was spitting lots and so I got a video of it. Enjoy!
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