Daley Ponderings

Noah has now figured out "crawling for transportation."  He knows he can do it, and he can book it across a room to get to something exciting.  (Related to this, Jonathan has been learning - and we relearning - to put things up high that we don't want Noah to get to.)  His ability to move on his own is such an incredible thing to watch.  I'm amazed every time.  It also enables him to entertain himself more while I'm doing other things.  For example, just now we came home from shopping and I needed to go upstairs with the groceries.  He protested my leaving and I said I'd be right back to get him.  But when I came back (after only dropping the bags on the kitchen floor) he was happily investigating some toy he found.  So I went back up and put everything away - with Jonathan's help!  ("You're welcome for helping you put the groceries away, Mommy.")

 Jonathan can identify all the numerals from 0-9 now, and most of the letters.
  He can find them pretty quickly on a keyboard, too, so those of you who get emails from him will start to see readable parts.  He writes "4565" all by himself, and then asks me to spell words and he finds the letters.  He's also delighted to find numbers and letters around town.  A billboard for a radio station, route and vehicle numbers on a bus, our very own 4565 on the house.  He does tend to read from right to left, but we just tell him that in English we read from left to right and then he'll correct himself.

One of the things I wrote on my lost planner list was Jonathan's spontaneous writing of a capital H and reminding me that that is what my name starts with.  Then he proceeded to write the rest of my name.  If he didn't know the letter, I wrote it on the chalkboard for him and he'd copy it (very roughly in some cases.) 

On January 10, Jonathan opened a can with a can opener all by himself.

On January 11, Noah was enjoying my butternut squash and I was signing and saying "more, please?" everytime I offered another bite.  After a while, he'd respond with a definite affirmative sound and face.