Thursday, April 20, 2006

Stowaway

Don't forget to pack me!!!
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Off to Italy, new photos when we return.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Mimicking Mom

We're so behind on blogging our pictures! We've got all sorts of fun stuff to add, but now it looks like we'll be off to Italy before getting them posted. Meantime, here's a cute one showing how interested Kelton has become in copying our every activity.

Language log: signs for train, car, dance

Signing continues to be Kelton's best way to share his thoughts with us. He learned the sign for the train (like pulling on the whistle chain). He sees the train at his playground, but from his signing we know he associates it with the sound we can sometimes hear from home, and the train pictures in his books, and even a song with a train whistle that he likes to dance to.

Lisa taught him the sign for car, which is like turning a steering wheel, but in his rendition both hands go up and down at the same time. It seems to work for getting into the car, and also for walking up close to any car, say in a neighbor's driveway.

Dancing continues to be a favorite activity. I thought my sign for that (arms shaped like a cradle) wasn't getting through since he's always so desperate to be picked up he seemed only annoyed at my signing diversion, but after a week or so he started doing it. Today we even got "down, dance" in sign.

He remains fascinated with lights of all kinds, and now the traffic light at the corner provides a new form of illuminated fascination. When Nana and Papa were here he got to do a lot of staring at the light as it cycled through its colors, and he tried to figure out how it was connected with the cars stopping and going. The traffic light gets the same sign as other lights (opening and closing fist facing outward).

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

The computer

Kelton loves banging on my laptop. Since he's been sick this week, I've humored him. Here's a sample of us typing our names together.

JJJKE.L.TO.N…….K.E.L.TO.N…MODMMYF;KRPRRRRRRR
MO MJUY’;LXBVC N .N LLL; /;
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Kelton did the punctuation and added some embellishments. He prefers the caps lock key as it lights up when active. It's very hard to keep him from pressing the neat looking silver button which turns off the computer.