Following in her brother's footsteps, Sarah is still relying mostly on signs, pointing, body language and grunts to communicate. Here are the signs that she knows and uses these days:
- Help
- Eat
- Drink
- Milk
- All done
- More
- Yes
- No (shaking her head)
- Hat
- Read a book
- Tissue (she holds her hand in front of her nose and blows)
- Thank you
- Please (just started working on this one with her)
- Swing
- Bath
One of the challenges we face, though, is that she wants to communicate mainly using "yes". And the way her little hand pumps up and down so emphatically, all I can hear in my head is "yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!"
"Sarah, do you want something to eat or to drink?" "Yes, yes, yes yes..."
"Sarah, do you want cheerios or kix for snack?" "Yes, yes, yes, yes..."
"Sarah, no more prunes or there will be disastrous consequences!" "Yes, yes, yes, yes ..."
"Sarah, that is Mommy's special chocolate and is not for you!" "Yes, yes, yes, yes ..."
(Hmmm, all my examples are food related... but who's surprised?)
In the past two weeks she's almost doubled her vocabulary by adding two new words. She still loves to say "Dada" way more then she says "Mama" and she also has been saying "hiiiiieeee" (hi) for a while. Her first new word is "uh oh", which quickly became her most favorite thing to say. (Especially in the middle of church, with Daddy encouraging her and Mommy trying desperately to reassure her/divert her attention!) With Gran's encouragement she now says "uuuhhhhhh!!" (up) as she squats down and tries to jump up (her previous way of communicating up).
Now I can't wait to see what's going to come next!
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