Baby Signs: Bird

Landon is getting better at communicating and using some baby signs. Now when we are inside and you say "bird" he will do the sign and point outside! Here is little clip of the bird sign... (watch his right hand, it is an opening and closing of your index and middle fingers and your thumb)

(Sorry, it had to be cut a lot shorter than it was)

He is also good with "all done" when he is eating, which is very helpful so he doesn't get frustrated when we try to feed him more. He is starting to do "more" and "cup". He is also good with airplane and we are teaching him book, since he loves them. Our plan is just to use a few signs with him to help him communicate before he can say certain words, which these can be very handy.

The Wave

Well this is going to have to be an update post since we haven't posted anything since Easter Sunday.

Two days ago Landon started to wave!! It is so cute he moves his wrist like he is in a Parade and it is always with his right hand. He does most things with his right hand so we are thinking that we have a righty on our hands, which is good because it is so much easier to teach them to write when they are the same as you are. We got the wave on video this morning, please excuse Mommy's singing since she can't carry a tune in a bucket, let alone a song, at least Landon like it!

(The video isn't working so we'll get it up soon...hopefully!)

This week Landon started being more interested in the pictures in the book where as before he was more interested in eating the book or trying to figure out how it could fit into his mouth. He continues to grow vocally as well. He is talking a lot now. We also had his first word..."Da-Da". He has been doing the whole "da-da-da-da-da" thing for awhile now, but just recently he has started to associate who "Da-Da" really is. About 5 o'clockish Landon will start with "Da-Da?" "Da-DA!" until Daddy gets home, which is about 40 minutes. Then when he sees Daddy he says, "Da-Da." What a heart warmer to come home from work to hear that! We are still working on "Ma-Ma", but Landon does call Mommy "mmmmm", so we have the right sound.

This was just a cute little sleeping shot!

This is a couple days ago when we were learning how to build blocks!! Mommy and Daddy build and Landon is the "Destroyer"!

Baby Signs: Up

We have decided to teach Landon a few baby signs. We have a book that talks about how to teach your baby to communicate not only using signs that are universally known but also to come up with indicators or signs that are easily identified by the parents and that are easy for your baby to do. We have been working with Landon on "up" and showing him to stretch out his arms towards us to be picked up. He is getting really good. We got it on film but it was cut short because we want to show positive reinforcement by actually picking him up when he does it.

And in other news, Mommy has her water bottle from the hospital that she got when delivering Landon that is toted everywhere and each time she has it in her hands Landon of course wants to have a drink too, or try to have a drink. Each time Mommy puts the straw to Landon's lips he more or less chews on it like a teether. Well, today after eating lunch he wanted the water bottle and Mommy put it to his lips. This time he figured out how the straw works, wrapping his lips around it and sucking! He got a big mouth full that was then dribbled down the front of him. We'll work on getting a video of that up here because it is too cute!