11 Days Later

This plan is at risk of falling apart. Here's the expanded notes I've been keeping since the last post.

I had a cough for a few days, and Grace started mimicking it, but in a way that was almost satirical. "Oh poor dad!"

Grace has had a really sad bottom. This has put potty training on hold. She's actually pretty tummy sick, poor thing, and hopefully we'll get some test results back from the doctor shortly.

She is enjoying playing outside. It was previously too cold, wet, and icky for her. It's well into spring now in the Willamette Valley, so she's getting 2/7ths of a week of sun, and she's making the most of it.

Her sign for "flower" is improving. Actually, all of her signs are improving, except the ones she's decided she can say satisfactorily. They just disappear. On that note, in addition to signing "All Done", she now says "Aw Daw", which means we basically get to expect her to stop signing all done. When I wrote that a week ago, it was a prediction. Today, it's a fact. Getting her to sign "All Done" seems almost random at this point.

These last two weeks Grace has picked up these signs: Cow, Butterfly, Baby. Of course, all in the uncontrolled movements of a 1 year old.

Grace has started to call food, "Ffff", which is decidedly less cute than the previous "Mmmmmm". I'll be sad when "Mmmmmm" is retired for good.

I've been "Ma Da" this week, while Betsey has retained the title of "Ma Ma".

Napping and sleeping is working out really well. The training was harder on Betsey than me. I slept through it mostly, while she sat and listened to her favorite little friend cry out at night (Grace never cried for more than 15 minutes before mama checked on her, even when it was a 40 minute session). I'm not that strong, and now that my sleep debt is slowly going away (Grace is sleeping up to 10 hours at a time) , I'm in debt to my amazingly strong wife.

Grace is really grasping how drawings in her books relate to real world items. It's been fun watching that little part of her brain click.