Signing Time

Ah, the Signing Time videos. They are terrible. And amazing. Evi loves them, but the adults are all a bit scared of the host, Rachel, who is, well...scary. But Evi loves these videos which we let her watch a few times a week. She is getting really good at signing and has added about one sign a day for the last week! Here is her list (ooh, a list!) of current signs:

1. food (this is her favorite)
2. more (2nd favorite..she was signing "more food" in her sleep the other night)
3. cracker (we are seeing a trend)
4. banana
5. dog
6. bath
7. baby
8. fan
9. water
10. milk
11. Daddy
12. Grandma
13. book
14. tree

Slap!

Every once in a while Evi has a bad night. She will usually go right back to sleep in the middle of the night with a little bit of milk and a soothing butt-pat. Not this night. She was fussy and wiggly and frustrating! Luckily we have a great baby carrier that serves to soothe the wild beasty. I wrestled it on in the dark, in my sleep-deprived state, then proceeded to wrestle Evi into it as well. Success! She calmed down immediately, snuggled her head onto my chest and fell asleep. The (very slow) time ticked away and I was thinking I might be able to take her out and put her in her crib. At almost this exact moment, Evi suddenly pushed herself away from me, looked me in the eye, swung her hand back and SLAPPED me across the face! WTF?! She immediately snuggled right back up to me and fell back to sleep.