On April 27, we went to the Zoo with Alissa, Will, Nate, and Sam. I sang to Jonathan the "We're going to the zoo" song and he repeated, "zoo, zoo, zoo!" He also repeated "cheetah" but he growled at the bears on his own. The elephants were much larger in real life than he expected and he didn't like it very much. He loved the lions and was upset when we moved on from them.He slid down a slide all by himself after going on my lap a couple of times. He liked the small monkeys, but the orangutan right near the glass was scary. All in all, we had a fun time.

April 28 - He said "blow" (as in blow your nose.)
May 2 - "porch", "Daddy's glasses" - while trying them on.
May 3 - Signed "bird" about a robin.
While outside playing with the neighbors, we got friendly with the 6-year-old Jonathan's pit bulls, Bubba and Chelsea. They stayed inside their fence, but their Jonathan pet them through it and put his face up for dog kisses. Then our Jonathan put his face up with his tongue out to get his own dog kisses! But I wasn't quite comfortable letting him do that. He did say, "Bubba" to try to get his attention, as well as "wuff wuff" and "doggie."

May 4 - Competently ate corn on the cob.
He also signs "hear/listen" which has happened for a while but I don't think I've written it.

Today while he was looking out the window, he saw Bubba in his yard and said, "down, Bubba, wuff." So we went outside and visted the dogs, Jonathan saying "Bubba" all the time. Bubba mostly just sat there, but Chelsea barked her head off at us.
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I note that no matter how determined you are to model correct speech for your child, words like "doggie" are so natural as to be unavoidable. :)
Posted by SursumCorda on May 6, 2005, 2:49 pm

Yes. Recently, he has been putting the "ee" sound on the ends of many words, ie "push-ee" "squish-ee" "down-ee."

Another thing about what to call dogs - he has been saying "wuff wuff" when he sees or hears a dog. It sort of bugs me, as if we had been teaching him that's what a dog is called. But then again you could think of it as he's trying to communicate with the dog in its own language. (:
Posted by joyful on May 6, 2005, 3:48 pm

The next HIPPO (http://www.lexlrf.org/) series: German shepherd, papillon, great Dane, shih tsu, Siberian husky, Welsh terrier, chihuahua.
Posted by SursumCorda on May 6, 2005, 4:44 pm

How does he sign hear/listen? The index finger from the mouth, or the ear?
Posted by Janet on May 6, 2005, 10:50 pm

Index finger to the ear.
Posted by joyful on May 7, 2005, 8:53 am

Hi, i was doing a search on "bits of intelligence" and came across your page- I have browsed thru some- dont knwo much as I havent read all - but Jonathan seems to love all that you are doing with him. We have attended the course at the Institutes and are doing some of the stuff at home- havent taken our daughter Priyanka there yet - but will very soon- I wanted to ask you what resources you used to collect material for your "bits" - thanks Darshana
Posted by Darshana on May 19, 2005, 11:32 am

I've found the bit-maker's greatest tool to be a computer with scanner and printer. Most books, even if they have clear, discrete pictures on a white background, have images that are too small to be good for bits. However, they are usually of high enough quality to enlarge with the scanner. Even the best originals often require a little clean-up with an image processing program before printing, but this is still a far, far easier way to make bits than we had available 20 years ago.

The Picture Dictionaries sold by the Institutes are also a good source of bits; they are a bit expensive, but with all the other languages on the CD's, you do get a lot for your money. You might also want to checkout the ChildBrain forum (http://www.childbrain.org/) for more ideas.
Posted by SursumCorda on May 19, 2005, 2:34 pm
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