Thursday, December 18, 2008

what's that?

for over a week now percy had been asking the question "what's that?", about everything. even things she's knows. i try to give her simple answers; it's a box, it's a spatula, it's a book, but when she holds up her baby sign language book open to the page for "pain" it's a little tricky. since she was very little we've described bumps and bashes and general scrapes as a "bonky", as in; "did you get a bonky on your knee?" if she falls over and appears to have hurt her knee. so i tried to explain what was on the page as "it's the sign for pain, you know when you get a bonky and it hurts, well you can describe that as pain." while i also do the sign for pain. i hope she understood me!

i think we should be gratefully she's only asking "what" so far, not "how" or "why"- those ones i'm not looking forward to.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

well you may not be looking forward to the 'why' questions but I am :)