I'm posting a lot because Shoshanna is being particularly brilliant

It's amazing to think about how far her communication skills have come in the past 2 weeks. Before Passover, she had a five-word vocab:

1. hi
2. byebye
3. uh-oh
4. dada
5. yes (nod)

Now, she has a many-word vocabulary (including both signs and spoken words as "vocab")

1. hi
2. byebye
3. uh-oh
4. dada
5. yes (nod)
6. no (shake head)
7. ball
8. a doggy
9. eat (signed)
10. drink (signed)
11. more (signed, sometimes mimiced as "mmmm")
    
12. book (signed and spoken sometimes)
13. draw (usually signed, sometimes spoken)
14. sleep (signed)
15. wash (signed)
16. baby (usually applied to pictures of herself that are up on the fridge)
    

That's right, she's more than tripled her vocabulary in two weeks.

She can identify at least six body parts by pointing to them:

1. head
2. face
3. ears
4. nose
5. tummy
6. belly button

I've tried testing her on two-step commands this morning and she hasn't completed any of them successfully - she forgets what she's doing after the "go get" part. But yesterday we were playing in the kitchen and Matthew started doing "Patty Cake" with her. She promptly got up, went into the living room, got her book of nursery rhymes (which includes "patty cake"), and brought it back to him to read. We were VERY impressed. And this morning she crawled into my lap and signed "sleep" (a sign we'd showed her once or twice two days ago). I asked her, "Do you want to sleep?" She nodded "yes." So I took her upstairs, gave her a binky and rocked her for about two mintues, then put her in her crib.

That was over an hour ago. She's still sleeping.