Isaiah discovered waving a little while ago, and now when you come in to get him in the morning, he waves to his bed. He waves from his high chair to the spoon he has just thrown on the floor. He waves at the window as you look out of it and at the building as you pass it. In the grocery store, he waves to all and sundry like a prom queen on a float. He waves at the bath and at the bathwater flowing out of the bath. Occasionally he’ll even wave at one of his waving parents. Waving has slightly dislodged the intense omnipresence of pointing, which however remains a significant activity.
He’s also begun to make a modified version of the “all done” sign we’ve been teaching him (a sign we apparently made up ourselves). Instead of making the washing-my-hands-clean-of-this-scene motion we do, Isaiah claps. Or rather, he makes a sign for clapping: he brings his hands quickly together and then pulls them quickly apart, without ever stiffening them or hitting them against each other hard enough to make a clapping noise. This makes the sign a bit hard to distinguish from his actual clapping; but context helps.
He has clearly noticed the utility of all-done on the high chair, where (for historical reasons) we tend to approach his grimaces and head shakings with some skepticism. In contrast, when he signs all-done, the meal is pretty much over. Seeing how well that works, he’s taken the next logical step and started using all-done on the changing table, in mid-diaper change, to signify that he, at least, is all done with this whole situation. It seems to puzzle him that we aren’t.
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