"Where's the..."

bear? (Ha! You thought we were going to say beef!). Delenn has
discovered the sign for 'where.' This afternoon we played
hide-and-go-seek with Logan at the dirt hills park for about a half
hour. When it was Delenn and Mommy's turn to hunt for Logan, Delenn had
a lot of fun 'finding' Logan. She'd wave her finger (the sign for
'where') and then point to Logan -- who had rather obvious hiding spots!
We all had a lot of fun!

This evening, Delenn spent about 20 minutes heaving her bear onto the
floor (nursing, throwing, finding, nursing, throwing, finding -- you get
it!). Mommy and Delenn would sign 'where' and she'd point to the bear.
She giggled really hard when Mommy managed to sneak the bear out of view
before we bent down to 'look' for it. The game would have gone on lots
longer if Mommy hadn't called an end to it. Delenn was getting more and
more riled up and was grabbing both fingers indicating she was ready to
walk around some more. As it was bedtime, the festivities had to come
to an end. Mommy ceremoniously put bear to bed. Then she asked if
Delenn was 'all done' and after another minute or two put Delenn to bed
too. Delenn cried for about 20 seconds, but then quieted down. She
seems to have drifted off to sleep.

Logan's play is really quite imaginative now. He wants to play rockets
(or monsters or police cars or jet planes or whatever) for up to a half
hour -- creating little scenarios about what's happening. (He's playing
with Daddy as we speak and I just overheard Logan say to Daddy, "We have
to hide. Then we have to go find the naughty people with our jet
airplane..." Then Logan hid the airplane under the bedcovers and said,
"okay, now the jet airplane is getting fixed." Now he's telling Daddy
that his plane has missiles and Daddy has to fire his missiles up into
the air at the fan. -- You get the idea!)

Logan's also very good about trying to console Delenn when she's crying.
Today when Mommy was finishing up her shower, Delenn was ready to get
moving (and made that clear by crying copiously). Logan brought her a
pile of toys -- about as big as she was! She quieted down, Mommy got to
dry her hair, and then we were off to the next activity (riding bikes it
so happened to deliver some cookies that Logan helped make (and sample)
to some friends who live nearby).