Swimming and more...

Audrey really, really enjoys her swim lessons. She's got one toe in before the class can even start, and I see her signing 'more' the minute her teacher has finished a song. She loves for me to sing the swimming lesson songs during bathtime, again signing 'more' the minute I finish a song. One of the songs involves having the kids sit on the wall, then stand on the wall, then jump in, of course with mom/dad holding on. The song version involves an alligator:

Alligator, alligator, on the wall!
Alligator, alligator, stand up tall!
Alligator, alligator jump off the wall!

We just so happen to have a squeezable/squirtable alligator from Aunt A and Uncle A which we can use in the tub to sing this song and enact it (much better than Audrey standing on the wall!). Anyway, she LOVES it! She also loves for me to sing, "This is the way we wash our face" etc. during the bath as she then likes to kick up the water until she's gotten me all wet. This is the song used at lessons to help get the kids accustomed to the water. Tonight, Eric was doing the bath and started singing:

Motorboat, motorboat go so slow.
Motorboat, motorboat, go so slow.
Motorboat, motorboat step on the gas.

Well, anything that involves anything FAST definitely captures our little girl's attention. He asked that I come up to watch her, and she was enacting the song (spinning while sitting to BE the motorboat, just like at lessons, but also having found a toy boat to help with her act), again wanting this not to end (even keeping the boat she was using as the last toy to give up when bathtime was over).

She also loves counting now. We've been counting the toys in her tub, lining them up on the wall, to get a good count. She wants them to be counted over and over, and will even point and try to "count" along with me. She even started pointed to the letters on my t-shirt the other night, again repeatedly wanting me to let her know which letters were making up the words.

She has learned to say, "Uh Oh" and it might be my favorite thing she's said yet (though mama and Aud-REE are very close seconds). Her Uh Oh is said when appropriate, and I often have to figure out what she's referencing. Her Uh Oh though is more like, A-Oh so it's really cute since she's put her own signature on it. She may have picked Uh Oh up from me, or maybe at daycare, but her father said it's not from him since it's not Uh Oh he finds himself saying when something goes awry...