Gwen tries to mimic everything. But she’s got quite the little vocabulary of words she actually uses correctly! Here are her newest words.
My favourite is when she tries to say ‘architecture’, as it comes out ‘akipoo’. And glasses sounded like ‘asses’, which is also very entertaining.
I thought I should get this stuff down in blogland for recording purposes! This week, Gwen learned the sign for ‘more’. It’s super cute the way she does it (focusses really hard on bringing her pointer fingers together) and it makes meal time a little bit easier, now that I can ask her if she’s ‘all done’ or wants ‘more’. Ah, the bliss of communication! I’m glad that I’ve stuck with trying to teach her some of these key words. I was initially really disappointed that she didn’t begin signing at 8 or 9 months like the early signers you read about, but I also realize that it’s not like I sign with everything I say and therefore she’s not going to pick it up as quickly! Regardless, it’s good to know that she is picking up signs … I’m trying to figure out some others that would be helpful for her to know.
This afternoon, we were outside hanging diapers on the line and we heard a dog bark. I asked Gwen if she heard the doggie and asked if doggies say “woof woof”. She looked at me with a very serious look and said “Whoo Whoo”. I thought maybe she was actually trying to say it, so I asked her again and she did the same thing. I asked her a couple more times throughout the day and sure enough - doggies say “whoo whoo” 
