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Today we were at Kidz Cook, making green pasta with alfredo sauce. (The baby had plain pasta - she likes to be involved. I'm already trying to decide when she'll be old enough to participate a little, because she's clearly aching for that day!)

The kids were all clustered around the sauce as the milk was poured in, and I guess this triggered something, because Ana pipes up with "OH! When my mommy gets home, she gives me milk. I get mama milk."

Cue the adult next to us: "That's... uh... awesome."

Ana seems to be over her thing with Johanna, too, which is great. Just great. Now I have to figure out how to keep the baby calm during Animal Time again. She loves the bird, likes the guinea pigs - but is inclined to wander off if we just sit down, and can get in the way. So she has to be up, but that's apparently not acceptable either. Gah. But it really is great :)

And, and, and, AND the baby has learned a new sign - "go up". (I know, that doesn't mean "go up" at all, but it does to her, all right?. I asked her before we left if she wanted to go up, and she mimicked the sign to me, banging on her chest. (Well, it's a start, anyway.)

( More animals )

Did I miss anything? Tomorrow, I intend to try to learn clothing suitable for a child in the summertime. Oh dear.

( Bat, Bat )

( Humpty Dumpty )

( Sailor went to sea )

That was exhausting. I'll post another list later-later.

I'm starting to notice a basic pattern for signs with animals - there's a lot of them with various handshapes up at the top of your head, and a lot with various handshapes crossed at your shoulders. That'll either make them easy to remember, or hard.

( Animals )

As you can tell, most of these are from songs. I plan to get the other words to those songs this weekend, as well as words for animals we tend to see at the SI zoo.

Is it just me, or do most of these signs reduplicate? Do they do so just as a demonstration, or are they supposed to be like that?