A few firsts
Today, Abi:
- Crawled into the kitchen, and pulled herself up against the freezer
- Splashed in her bath, and even got the floor wet
She also says the word “ma ma” a lot – particularly when she is hungry and close to Mommy. Â Today, Mommy was working in her office behind a closed door. Â Abi crawled to Mommy’s door, and said “ma ma, ma ma”. Â Judging by the amount of food she ate soon thereafter, she was pretty hungry. Â Daddy just pointed out that she clearly has object permanence since she knew I was behind the closed door.
So, there you have it folks, we now know Abi’s first word. Â (She was saying it before, but it was not clear if it had any meaning for her since kids normally interchangeable call both parents “mama” and “dada” for a while.
We’ve also started her on sign language. Â We are working on a few basic words, include “eat”, “drink”, “sleep”, “diaper”, “more”, “all done”, “stop” and “hurt”. Â Daddy is working with Abi on “chicken” because he particularly likes the sign for that word.