Wordless Commandments

Sophia doesn’t talk yet, not a single word. At her nine-month check-up, I was asked if she was saying “momma” or “dada” yet. Even then, she made the sounds of “ma ma ma” and “da da da”, but they still have no assigned meaning. Unless of course she’s desperately trying to tell us she wants a Volkswagen, in which case I should inform her she needs a job.

I’ve been working with her on signing but I’m not very consistent with it so she’s not picking it up. Baby genius has made up her own signs though. When she’s finished eating or no longer wants me to wave a spoonful of food around her face while aiming for her mouth she’ll throw her arms up in the air like a gymnast at the end of a routine. If I’m lucky, I have the spoon in the jar and not heading towards her face when she makes her announcement. If I’m being persistent, she’ll do what I call the airplane wave off, which is moving both hands back and forth in front of her face so that her arms go from parallel to her neck to making an ‘X’ in front of her face.

I don’t remember if she was doing this before my last milestones post, if not it was soon after. If she wants us to do something, she’ll take our hand and place it on the object she wants to work, like her Playskool Busy Poppin’ Pals toy. She knows how to push the button to make the panda pop up, but the rest of them only pop up by accident, usually when kicking. She’ll take our hand, place it on the toy, and then look at us like, “well, make it work!”

While I was on my trip Kurt told me about an incident with controlling baby and her scooter. He said that she wanted to get on her scooter but since it wasn’t up against something, she couldn’t because it kept moving away from her. Nice daddy Kurt held it for her so she could get on. Once on the scooter she took Kurt’s hand and forcefully pushed it away, “I don’t need you anymore! You’ve serve your purpose peasant.” And off scooting into the sunset she went.

When I came back from my trip she began giving me things, even if I don’t really want them. She takes my hand turns it so it’s palm up and then will place something, usually one of her Mega Bloks. It’s cute but she’s so forceful about what she wants it sometimes makes me think I have a little controller on my hands.