Aiden's latest word: "bubble"

As in bubble wrap.

Tee hee.

*gets onto language geek soapbox ( Read more... )

This post makes me happy.

Skirr! Apodiectic! Griseous!

...how happy this icon makes me (stolen from princekermit). Now I just need to figure out how to dissect animated gifs so I can add frames for "tenant" vs. "tenet" and "loose" vs. "lose".

Edited to add:: also "altar" vs "alter", "censer" vs. "censor", "mute" vs. "moot"....

So I've posted a couple of times about how difficult it is to know how much Aiden is really understanding or trying to communicate, since pure chance will have signal and interpretation overlap from time to time. It's impossible to know if he's saying "hiiiii" with the intent of greeting until we see it not only repeated a lot at the appropriate ( Read more... )

And it is "meow"

There are three ways of saying something ( Read more... )

Aiden has in the last day signed twice, spontaneously, asking for milk.

By Jove, I think he's got it.

I'm not sure what sign to work on next. I've used signs for diaper, all done, more, eat, drink, and yay but none of those have grabbed his attention at all so far. Maybe now that he's figured out one, he'll pay more attention to the rest.

I am happy to report that the unfortunate spelling error I wrote of a few days ago has been fixed.

So, our local Top Foods is finishing up a *massive* remodel. Among other things, they're putting in a huge new prepared-foods section - sushi!, subs, antipasto, salad bar, like whoa. Every time we go in we peek at the progress in this new section, which has been largely blocked off for a couple of months now ( Read more... )