Boy Oh Boyers

Rowan's comprehension of spoken language is increasing rapidly. With his greater sense of balance and the ability to hop to his feet at a moment's notice, he's also usually pretty quick to respond to requests like, "let's go to the high chair" or "go find Angel". Yesterday he astounded me when he responded to a much more complicated request.

I was in the master bathroom putting in my contact lenses. Rowan was in the closet doing one of his favorite activities: taking all the shoes off the shoe rack and putting them back in a haphazard way...or, lately, putting them in the laundry basket with dirty clothes. (It's better than putting them in the kitchen garbage can, but I digress.) Anyway, I took the cap off my contact lens solution and the cap fell to the floor. It was a very small, round, white plastic cap, and with my contacts out I couldn't see it. I was curious to see what would happen if I asked Rowan to help, so I said, "Rowan, Mommy has dropped a white cap. Can you help me find it?" Rowan promptly emerged from the closet doorway and walked over to me. He looked around by my feet and immediately crouched to reach underneath the counter beside the towel basket. He stood up, reached his hand toward me, and handed me the contact lens cap! Wow!

It's amazing to see how he is moving from simple word recognition (like pointing to the ball on the living room floor, or picking out the cow in a picture book) to putting ideas together. This morning we were using sidewalk chalk to make a picture in front of the house, and I drew the sun. He said, "suh", and then pointed up to the sky (where the sun was not yet visible) and said "sigh!" He knows not only that the picture of the sun corresponds to the word "sun", but that the picture of the sun represents something that, in real life, is in the sky. Gosh, humans are amazing! (And of course, my little baby human is the most amazingest. Ever!) ;-)

Now if anybody has advice on how to stop him from sticking his foot in the dog's water bowl...