Olie APB - Come on Baby, Let's Do the Twist

The (signed) words are coming a mile a minute now. Monday night Olie signed “hot,” which also happens to be one of his few spoken words. Naturally after this discovery I asked him to sign “cold.” He did. Then later he signed “mouse” and finally “bear.” In fact while reading to him on Monday night, he made a sign for virtually every page. I read and he waved his hands along. It was very interactive.

And speaking of interactive, Olie is also following kinetic instructions now. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been reading Slap Your Hands, a book with all kinds of rhyming commands, “slap your hands, stomp your feet, shake your arms and take a seat." Olie always anticipates the next instruction, and before we even read it, he’s patting his knee, or tapping his head. Last week in dance class, for the first time Olie stopped running around on his own and actually performed the dance steps along with everyone else. He’s still trying to get the hang of kicking and rocking side to side. But he’s fully mastered the twist.