Baby Laughs!

Loving the Swings
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This week has been a ball of laughs with Caitlin so I just had to share…

Caitlin is learning so many new things! She can properly identify many parts of her body – head, ears, tummy, hands, and feet. She is very proud of herself when she touches the right body part and has the cutest little grin! Anytime she hears the word she is ready to show off what she knows (at home at least – outside is a different story). Case in point – today we just had to read “Five Silly Monkeys” over and over again so she could touch her head every time a monkey fell off the bed and bumped his head! She will also make some animal sounds – Sheep says “ba”, Cow says “mmmmm”, Dog says “ufffffff” [an attempt at woof]. She is very emphatic about the sheep saying “ba”.

Last night Eric was reading “The belly button book” to Caitlin so he points out his belly button to her. She proceeds to try stick her whole hand in his belly button and say “bell-ye”. This was a very fun game for the rest of the night to try to stick her whole hand there and repeat “bell-ye” over and over again!

Another new thing that Caitlin has perfected is “more” in sign language. She is now constantly signing “more”. This can be very frustrating for me – not knowing what she wants more of. So I ask her while signing – do you want more drink? More milk? More water? More eat? More book? More play? Sometimes I get an answer by applause after the one she wants – but more times than not I get a blank stare with repeated signing of “more”. It is awesome that she is learning the signs –I know it is supposed to relieve her frustration since she can communicate with me – but what about my increased frustration? Ha ha. So the funniest thing happened today… we come back from our walk in the stroller and she is frantically signing “more”. So I go through my list of what do you want more of…. She responds with “more”. I say “More what”. Her response is “BELL-YE”! Too funny! She wanted more belly button. Tee hee. Oh the things kids come up with! That put a big smile on my face!

Today we were in the checkout line at Wal-mart and suddenly she had the urge to wave and say “bye bye” to everyone in the store! I wasn’t even done checking out yet but we had to say “bye bye” to the checkout girl, people in line behind us, people walking by, etc. The entire store got “bye” from Caitlin today. Too funny. Anytime you are out and want her to say something she just looks at you like you are crazy. Then out of nowhere we get bye bye. Silly!

She is the sweetest girl giving kisses! For a long time we had to ask for a kiss and we were deemed special royalty almost if granted a kiss from Caitlin…. Last week Caitlin started initiating giving us kisses. Random times just leaning forward and giving us kisses. If that doesn’t melt your heart I don’t know what will! Yesterday I was reading her a book about babies… every page has something about babies…. Well she decided that every baby on every page should get a kiss. Too cute!

This week we also had out first experience with sidewalk chalk and crayons. She did fairly well with the crayons making lines on the paper – she might be an artist yet!

This morning I had to go wake her up to go to a doctor’s appointment. Usually she wakes up as soon as I open the door – but this morning she lay peacefully sleeping. I stopped for a few minutes and just watched her sleeping. Falling even more in love with her if that is even possible. Psychiatrists should bottle that up and sell it – watching a baby sleep can be so relaxing and calming! She looked so sweet – I just wanted to freeze that moment in time. I did manage to get a picture without her waking up as well!

Such fun with baby Caitlin!