Ahhh the cool breezes of Fall are sandwiched in between the humid broiling between cold fronts. We are welcoming the cooler weather and Thomas is enjoying more outdoors as it is getting to cool for the pool!
His sense of adventure grows daily by leaps as bounds, much faster than his vocal repertoire. Thus our list of injured personal belongings is growing and things we don't want curious little hands to find move higher up on the furniture and refrigerator as well as behind locked cabinets.
We are enjoying Thomas' explorations and he does keep us in our Joy, as well as teaching us patience. He can now sign approx. 6-10 words, depending on the situation. Being able to communicate like that has really made him less susceptible(but never immune) to tantrums as he feels he can communicate in other ways and be understood until he can start forming words.
Some of the words he signs are please, cracker, soda, cookie, juice, more, milk, light-which is essentially pointing at the lamp and his hand is the "L" sign by "accident"(?)...he doesn't sign "thank you", but does manage to say something that tonally sounds similar. Every day there is something new with his development, we do encourage him to run around and be active, he(actually we) survived his first time away from us when we left him in the church nursery last week. One or both of us were outside watching through a window most of the time, but it was tough to leave the little guy alone.
I enjoyed watching him interact with other little kids, as he was really needing that, and will continue to of course. I was very proud of how he behaved and asked strangers to "please" help him when he needed to get in a chair or have a toy. They might not have known that is what he was signing as it looks like he his patting his chest when he signs "please", but it was reassuring to see him asking for what he wants and not grabbing it from other kids.
