He will sign “all done” whenever he’s done with food or an activity or anything. The other day, he signed “sleep” and “all done” when he was in the bath. I held up the towel, he climbed up into it, and didn’t object to being put into his pajamas or bed — he had asked for it, after all.
“Eat” is his primary word now, which he will couple with the sign to make sure we know that he’s hungry. He will also race around the house saying “cat, cat, cat” whenever he’s on the hunt for Hanna (especially) or Lucky.
He’s been in a better mood generally now that his primary needs can be communicated to us most of the time, although he’s generally a pretty happy guy even before this current linguistic burst.
True to the slasher genre, it’s off to a bit of a slow start, but it’s good enough for me to keep watching. The cast is better than expected, and the soundtrack is horror movie-perfect.
There’s a total of 13 episodes, ending in July. There’s also an accompanying series of webisodes, Harper’s Globe, about what’s happening to the intern at the island’s paper, the Globe, at the same time as the events of the TV series. Aspects of the TV and Web shows will apparently cross over occasionally. There’s even an iPhone app.
He’s been “reading” his (excellent) book Snugglepuppy by Sandra Boynton, complete with pointing to the “oooooo”s in the story every time the dog says it, and has even constructed new ooos in the bathtub with his bath letters and numbers.
He’s saying what sounds like “mehmeh” for “mama.”
He’s finding ducks in books, on TV, among his toys or wherever and yelling “gak, gak” (the Q sound is tricky) when his search is a success.
And, the other night, when he was done with dinner, he signed “all done” (brushing invisible crumbs away off your chest) and pushed his food away.
He’s not doing any of it but the oooooos and the gaks consistently, but he’s picked up the regularity of all his speaking and signing. His baby talk days are clearly coming to an end.
