Handful of Rose-Petals

Friday, February 8, 2008

First Words

So, we've been trying to teach Rose sign language recently. She seems to be a bit frustrated by her inability to communicate and we figured a few signs might help. One of the most important signs, of course, is 'thank you' and tonight I was encouraging Rose to sign it when she one-up'd me and said 'thank you' clear as a bell. I thought I was imagining things, but nope, Jay got her to say it too and we even managed to get a brief video . . . of course we didn't know she was going to show off, so we grabbed the camera after she'd tired of her new trick. You will thus enjoy quite a bit of Jay and I coaxing and only one or two demonstrations of Rose's new trick . . . and not her best demonstrations either . . . if she seems a bit "yeah, yeah . . . "thank you" . . . great . . . let's move on" it is only because she's way too cool for Jay and I and obviously way ahead of us.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Crawling and Clapping

So one day Jay and I were playing with Rose and she suddenly crawled into the corner, stopped and clapped for herself. When we clapped too she started to speed around the room with regular stops to cheer herself on. This video is the very tail end of that very fun game!

Laughing Rosie

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Rose Finally Crawls

Exciting news from Askren-land: Rose has finally figured out forward motion. Yes, after two months of teasing, Rose finally mastered the forward crawl, accomplishing the first of many New Years resolutions a mere days after the ball fell. She, of course, was extra motivated by her mother's week-long, food-poisoning induced diarrhea, figuring that anytime Mom can't move must be the right time for her to start!