Socially Appropriate

Over the course of the last two weeks, Baby Girl has been waving like a regular Ronald McDonald. She waves hello, good-bye, and waves to that cute baby in the mirror that's always happy to wave back. Aside from the times that she waves at us while we change her diaper, it's probably the first social cue that she's really picked up on, and it's making me incredibly glowingly gushingly gratified. If you have lived with someone with a developmental delay, you also know how cool it is to see that person master a social cue. My brother has autism, as I have mentioned before, and the smallest of socially appropriate motions are cause for frequent fits of laughter and triumph. "Mikie did not begin the conversation asking Mrs. May which day her garbage was collected!" AWESOME! "We had company over and Mikie did not chastise nor verbally berate them after they arrived four minutes late." RAD!!! "I was so proud of Mikie today. He wore a sweater on top of a T-shirt and neither one matched and I made a comment and he told me to get a life." PAR.TEE.ON!!!

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Waving through the openings of the step stool. A socially appropriate game for the 7 month-olds among us. Hours of laughter for the 28 year-olds, as well.