Please and Thank You!

I wish I had a picture for this post. I have a video on my phone, but can't get it off yet, so I'll just tell you about our day.

First of all, William still LOVES Baby Signing Time. He is such a vegitable when it's on. Here are our buddies Alex, Leah, and Hopkins.
We've been doing some of signs with William for months, with few results. He will do the sign for "all finished" when he's done eating, and just over the last few days he has started to do please, but that's all we've been able to get him to do so far. Yesterday I was watching him play, and he'd look at his hand, put it to his mouth, and pull it away, which looked an aweful lot like the sign for thank you. We've never done that sign to him, but just for fun I started to do it with him, and he'd sign it everytime I asked him to. It was pretty impressive that he picked that one up on his own, just from the show! (That's what I have a video of... to be posted soon)

The other highlight of my day today came at naptime. William has been really cuddly lately, which doesn't happen much. I think it might have something to do with the fact that he has chosen to be an early riser. Very early. But today when I went to put him down, I picked up his elephant and gave it to him like I always do. He usually puts his head on my shoulder for a minute and then leans toward the crib for me to lay him down (he is so good). But today when I handed him the elephant he pointed to the rocking chair. So I sat down and he snuggled right up to me and zonked out. It was the sweetest thing. I could watch this boy sleep all day.