14 months old, week 5

Juli had been tiptoeing frequently. Toddler tantrums had become a norm, often but not too much. She walked down the short stairs by cruising (holding on the bars).

Getting acquainted with the alphabetical letters

Juli was first "formally" introduced to some random manual alphabetical letters at 12 months. From there, I'd casually expose her to some alphabetical letters from time to time.

For the past few weeks, Juli pointed to the alphabetical letters in a picture book as if these letters were the pictures themselves. I'd show her the ASL alphabetical letters.

One day I asked Juli for the first time, "Where is the J"? She pointed to the correct letter in the book. She had been learning to recognize the letters.

Reporting

Juli, sitting on my lap in my office, uttered father out of the blue sky. I interpreted it that Dude was back home now. Sure enough, I saw the shadow emerging outside the doorway of my office. Then Dude came to the doorway to say hi.

Juli gazed at Dude as if she wanted to tell him. She pointed to the video of herself on the screen and then pointed to herself. Dude responded, "Yeah? What is on there?" He entered and walked around to take a look. "Oh, yes it's you!"

From there on, Juli continued to matter-of-factly utter father often whenever Dude entered home.

Use of ASL words

Juli focused intensely on her interests of the week and used ones of the most frequently used ASL words: vacuum (and broom), baby (she kept asking to watch her one-year video slides and often signed sneeze to refer to herself sneezing when she was a newborn, key (she requested me for it a few times or more a day).

Juli used to produce phone on the upper and farther back head. Now the location parameter of this ASL word has phonologically developed a bit more. The location is now much lowered (close to the neck) between the chin and the ear.

The following referential words that Juli has used this week: cook, mother, bath ix-loc dad (referred to Dude in the washroom), water (20-handshape), dirty, stop, some new words shown in the video, and some reguarly used ASL words.

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