Oops! We had a little lapse there in our blog. Between keeping up with Finn and being slowed down by a big tummy, there hasn’t been much time for writing and uploading pictures. We’ve also been having kind of a boring winter, so not much to report. Just watching Finn get bigger by the minute and getting excited for the new baby!
Finn has a whole new set of tricks these days. He’s really started walking like crazy in the last few days, although he often prefers to walk on his knees or to crawl. He’s saying a lot of new words: “shoe”, “bye-bye” (di-di), “Jack” (Ja), “ball” (ba) and a couple of others. He’s signing a lot of words too: “more”, “eat”, “diaper”, “bath”, and he made up his own sign for “brush teeth”! What’s even more fun to see is how many words and pictures he understands. He will go to his shelf and get a book if you ask him to and he’s pointing to pictures in his books and showing that he knows what they are (e.g. pointing to a picture of a hat and then pointing to his head, pointing to a picture of someone brushing teeth and signing “brush teeth”).
He makes noises for cars, trucks, dinosaurs, and ducks whenever he sees them, although he still tends to roar like a lion when he sees most animals. We call it the "mad cow" or the "rabid cat" when he does it. :) It’s so neat to see how much he’s learning. He also does a great imitation of me that captures how much I gesture with my hands when I talk (which must be a lot!).
