It's so interesting to me how certain things 'stick' in Eli's brain and others don't. This has happened with most of sign language; some signs I have been using since he was six months old and he still doesn't duplicate them. While others he will start using after only seeing them once or twice. Today was a breakthrough 'stick' with Eli in the animal sound area. Every day we go through the animals and their sounds, whether it's during an Old McDonald rendition, or and Are You My Mother? call and answer, or just a plain old what-does-the-blank-say Q&A. The obvious animals (cows, dogs, birds, cats) are always included, given how common they are in every day life. Yet to this day Eli cannot/will not say 'dog' or tell you what a dog says. Until today, the same went for cats. (Actually, Eli started saying "key" about two weeks ago whenever he saw kitty cats.) As we were driving to the park this morning we went through the animals and after I said, "Eli, what does the kitty say? It says 'meow'.", he responded in kind. Lehr was super-impressed when he came home and Eli performed on demand. I got a few moments of his new-found sound effect on video; he makes the funniest face when he meows!
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