Signing

Erin learned her first sign language yesterday.  She now knows the sign for "Milk."  We've been working on a couple of different signs, but she can open and close her fist really well.  (like milking a cow).
She also knows how to wave hi & bye.  But I think I mentioned that before in a previous post. 
She's starting to come along pretty well.  However, there's still some things that she doesn't do for her age. 

• She occasionally holds her bottle, but would prefer to be fed.  If I set the bottle in front of her, she just screams.  Sometimes I just give in and other times I just let her cry it out.
• When I say clap your hands, she pats her legs.  She doesn't really put her hands together.

Those are two things that she isn't doing and should be doing by now, but we continue to work on them.
Even though she doesn't do the above things, there are other things that she accomplishes without any struggles...

• She plays peek-a-boo.
• She loves to give kisses to me, Emmy, daddy, the mirror and all of her stuffed animals.
• She loves to make clicking noises with her tongue.
• We have a toy at home where you can place a bunch of balls that go down a spiral slide.  She loves to play with this toy and she also likes to place the balls in the elephant's ears.  The ball comes out the elephant's mouth.  She plays with this over and over.   Emmy used to love playing with this when she was a baby too.  see here...http://krusemarkbaby.blogspot.com/2009/03/musical-toy.html
• She's almost walking!!  She's taken a couple of steps towards me and has stood on her own for about 10 seconds without really knowing she's doing it. 
• When I yell "Super Baby," she throws her fist up in the air.