"Diaper"

[celticdragonfly]

Alanna just asked for a diaper change!

I've been saying "diaper" and making the sign for it, when she's on the changing table, and she's been responding with an approximation of the word and the sign - and then she'd started to say/sign it first, always on the changing table. As if she was saying "aha, we're doing this thing called diaper!"

Just now she was in the high chair eating, and fussing some, and said her approximation of diaper and signed it - and yes, she was messy and needed changing. Yay!

Comments

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

How cool!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I've always thought it would be far less embarassing for a kid - across the room, even - to simply put their fist on their nose ("toilet") than come up and tug on your clothes and say "I gotta go potty!" in their outside voice... nevermind easier on the *parent's* ego... :)

But, yes, being able to express the source of one's discomfort is totally the key to getting it alleviated, and makes for a much less fussy kid... with a corresponding effect on the parent! Go you!