Theo has started clapping when we finish reading a book or singing a song. He’s been an avid clapper for months (actually since Father’s Day last year!) but it’s really cool to see how he has learned that this is a positive response when something is finished, not just a fun thing to do. The good news is that he still hasn’t figured out that my voice is awful. That will come soon enough. For now I will just take my applause with a kiss and a smile.
He seems to have really turned a corner in development, interacting more with his surroundings (listening more closely to outside sounds, pointing at things, and responding by clapping and dancing to music and endings). He was crying and freaked out this morning with construction noises from another apartment. He was hiding in the kitchen and when I told him what it was, that everything was okay, and asked him to come join me in the living room he just kept shaking his head no. Poor guy. I notice he recognizes songs now and gets excited and he recognizes the alphabet when he hears somebody else singing it (as we did at the morning singalong today). He also does this funny thing when he’s unsure about something, or freaked out… he sort of shrugs his shoulder, scrunches his face, and says, “mamamama?”.