Body Part Check

At Sophia’s last two checkups, I’ve been asked as part of their routine milestone measurements if Sophia can point to her body parts. The first time I was asked, at her fifteen month checkup, I told the nurse that wasn’t something I had worked on with her. I figured I would start right then. She didn’t really pick it up until a week after next appointment, her eighteen month checkup.

Her first identifiable body part was her tummy. She happily discovered it after I stopped using bodysuits on her because the tagless stencils were causing a rash on her back. “Where’s your tummy?” On cue, and without formal training, she would lift her shirt and pat her belly.

Because of the short-lived fetish she had with wearing my shoes around the house her next identifiable body part was her feet. Then, her nose which she has renamed the, “Nuh-Nuh”. Next were her eyes. She really likes enunciating the long ‘e’ sound so she points and says, “Eye-EE”. Today I finally got her to point to her ear and mouth. Of course “pointing” to her mouth requires that her mouth be open and her hand or arm cover and uncover it while she makes noise, usually referred to as the Indian War Cry except in front of Native Americans of course. Ssshh don’t tell them the term is still used. It’s not as flattering to their heritage as casinos.

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