Daily gratitude

[halojedha]

Gratitude practice copied from watersword!

1. Our wonderful nanny C can do three days this week! I've got loads of work done during their two days so far, even though I've got a bad cold. And they're coming back on Friday, which is WONDERFUL because Leo is out 6.30am-8.30pm tomorrow and Friday for a conference. My snotty self is super grateful for the extra childcare support.
2. Leo did some delicious bulk cooking on Monday and it lasted us three days. It's been so great having lovely food without having to cook
3. I napped for an hour this afternoon and felt miles better afterward
4. My mum did a brief visit and we had a lovely Vietnamese lunch together
5. E has started signing! They've been signing milk for about a week now. They first signed it to C last week, but it was a while before I saw it. But tonight E signed to me really clearly! They were in the high chair and looked like they were done eating. I was asking them (with sign and words) if they'd had enough food. They signed milk! I signed it back and they did a big excited reaction 😁 Cleaned them up and they enthusiastically breastfed! Yay language development!

Comments

[cjwatson]

I love baby sign - we did it with J when she was little and it was really good fun and so useful for communication.

[halojedha]

It's great isn't it? I considered giving up on it once or twice - we started when E was 5 weeks and the teacher led us to believe that they'd be signing by 5 months, so I wondered if I just wasn't being consistent enough and if I should give up. So glad I kept at it!

[kaberett]

LANGUAGE oh goodness that is so exciting

[halojedha]

GROWING A BRAIN

[doop]

Baby sign is AMAZING isn't it? I remember when L figured out the sign for "more", and that he could point at a thing and sign "more", and more of it would (usually) appear!

Total game changer, not sure we've ever completely recovered.

[halojedha]

Haha! Was it L who just adopted "more" as the generic "I want a thing" sign? I'm very excited about levelling up in communication, and curious to see which ones E learns next!

[doop]

He certainly did for a while, yes!

[twirlgrrl]

LOVE baby signing.