Hat!

This video actually demonstrates something new that has been (mostly) wonderful - which is a real leap in Noa's receptive language. As you'll see in this video, I ask Noa where her hat (hoodie) is - she answers with the sign for "hat" a couple of times, then I ask her to show me her hat and she pulls up her hood. This is really much more complicated and specific than the kind of stuff she has done in the past. And we've noticed it in other areas as well - asking her to lift her leg, or walk a few steps, she just seems to get it more quickly and more specifically.

It's just mostly wonderful because she also has a better understanding of when we don't want her to do something. It used to be that we'd have to sign "no" when we said in order to get the point across. Now she gets it with just the word. She also gets it when we tell her something like "no kicking" - which as you can imagine, if you read the last post, is hugely disappointing. So this causes some regular ol' toddler meltdowns... which is good. Unless of course you're Noa and you want to kick stuff.