Riley's brain grew overnight. She came to show me a pencil, unsharpened, her brother gave her for Valentine's. It's got owls and hearts all over it. Well, she marched right over to mommy, held it up and said "Owl. Pen-sol" and then "Whoo!" before she ran away. I was stunned. I didn't know she knew what the word "pencil" meant.
A few minutes later I looked over to see Riley writing on a piece of paper. Not making random scribbly motions with her whole arm, but considerately making a line in a spot and picking up her pencil and doing it again, making a little zigzag at the end. I asked Mike if he was seeing what I was seeing. He confirmed it, she was attempting to write. Inspection of her coloring book revealed she'd been "writing" all morning, using different colors for different "words". I thought that attempts at writing were at least a year away, who knew?
Riley's been answering "no" to things a lot. She has a "No-No" that means you're not supposed to be doing that (usually accompanied by finger wagging) and a "Nooo. No." which means I don't want to. She's been a lot more verbally responsive lately in general. If you ask her a question she answers you. She also has a gleeful "Yes!" and a causal "yup." It's amazing how much she understands about spoken language.
She shocked us again at dinner time. Mike was getting something out of the fridge and as is mandatory for all toddlers she was running under his arm and grabbing condiment bottles. She brought me salad dressing, and Mike and I gave her the obligatory sing-song, "Oh, what do YOU have? Saaalad dressing! Verrry nice!", and then I sent her back to put it away, which she proudly did, trading it for the barbecue sauce on the sly. Mike asked again, "What do you have?" This time she said clear as a bell, "barbecue!". We both started laughing histerically, and she repeated it again, "barbecue," pointing at it like, "I'm not kidding guys! That's what this is."
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