Language and Obedience

More on Lexi's language skills and her comprehension of words...

On tv the other night, we saw two people kissing. Someone must have also said 'kiss' because the next day, Lexi pulled Stephen and I together as we all sat on the couch and said 'kiss'. She then did it a couple of times after we had obeyed. And another time when we were standing waiting around for something, she pulls on our legs - pushing us towards each other and saying 'kiss.' Besides commanding us to 'kiss' and 'come', we are also commanded to 'sit' (usually with the word in Swahili), 'lie down' and 'get it' when something has dropped out of her reach.

This afternoon we spent about an hour in the Air and Space Museum. 'Airplane' is a word that Lexi likes and she was very excited to see so many of them. There was lots of arm waving and shouting. In the space section, she saw several devices that had shiny paper - looked like tin foil. This prompted her to say 'chocolate'; it took me a bit to figure out that she thought the shiny paper covered chocolate like the chocolate bar she had seen at home.