Over the last couple of months we’ve been working on learning different parts of the body. Just saying “Where’s your…” will often get a point to the head, sometimes an inadvertently hard slap to the head (careful, Sophie). It seems like she does pretty well, but we probably have a lot of false-positives when we ask for a body part and she gets it right just out of sheer luck, not because she really knows where her nose it. Currently, our small repertoire of parts consists of: head, ears, nose, toes, belly (tummy), fingers. We’ve worked on chin and knees with limited success. Yesterday morning I randomly asked her to point to her teeth, which she decisively did. Whoa! There was no doubt if she knew her teeth: this was an open-the-mouth-and-and-put-finger-on-teeth point. We haven’t been working on that word, so I guess she picked it up from daycare. While these moments are fascinating and exciting, they’re also a bit unsettling. What else does she know?
Update: she did it again this morning, and her dad thinks it’s because we have started brushing her teeth—which she seems to enjoy quite a bit. I think he’s probably right. Weird how they seem to be listening even when you don’t think they are.
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