You Spin Me Right Round Baby

It's like something has clicked in our house. That something is Hazel. She gets it now...like understands things we are saying without using gestures. When she picks up one of Ben's shoes and sets it down in front of him and gives the command "Shoe" (which means, Dad, put on your shoe. I just brought it to you, so PUT IT ON NOW!"), you can tell her that you don't want to put on your shoe right now, so please go put it back where she got it from...

and she picks up the shoe and GOES AND PUTS IT BACK WHERE SHE GOT IT FROM.

I don't think the full impact of that sentence really hit you...we told her to do something and she did it. She understood us. We're communicating. It's fabulous.

Like last night, Ben told Hazel it was getting late and it was time to go get pajamas on and get ready for bed...before he even stood up, the little turd was hightailing it down the hallway into her bedroom and was trying to get the pajama drawer open. My kid is a genius.

So, as always, we got too excited about something before we realize that this opens up a whole new can of worms.

Hazel recently learned to spin. As in, arms stretched out and spinning in circles until your dizzy. She did this on Monday when I picked her up from daycare. I thought it was really cute, so I started spinning with her.

When we got home, I asked her to show Ben how she could spin (again, not showing a gesture, but just asking her to). On command, she started spinning....and spinning....and spinning.........

She finally tipped over and was on her wobbly way somewhere else. I thought-Brilliant! She gets what I'm asking her to do! Genius baby part 2!

Ben's mom stopped over and we asked Hazel to show her how she can spin. Again, she started spinning...and spinning...and wouldn't stop. She spun right into the cupboards and the table and the floor. We asked her to stop spinning...to which she heard "SPIN BABY SPIN" and started spinning again!

The only way to get this kid to stop spinning was to pick her up. I held her for a few minutes, got the dizzies out and put her back on the floor to continue playing. She immediately started spinning again. Even when she tipped over, she'd get right back up and spin.


I'm not really sure what to do at this point. If she's on the floor, she's spinning in circles, getting dizzy.

Basically, this is all my fault. She's understanding key words of things we say but not really understanding fully what we're asking. Guess the whole communication thing has a way to go.