baby talk

After watching “The Secret Language of Babies” special on Oprah the other day, Erin and I have been trying desperately to figure out what Kai’s sounds mean, with limited success. According to the author, all babies instinctually make five sounds that correspond to various states of need, including hunger, discomfort, sleepiness, burp assistance and lower abdominal pain from gassiness. What she was saying made sense, but it takes a trained ear to distinguish the sounds, which are not as different as one would hope. I’ll update you on our progress soon.

Kai’s advancement is rapidly progressing. His attempts at grabbing objects placed in front of him are getting more effective. He definitely makes more sounds now than ever, and is sleeping more than ever. He usually gets a good 5-7 hour sleep period in, and then wakes to eat every 2 hours after that. He then enters a wakeful period around 7am for a few hours, and then needs several siestas to get him through the day. I wish I could sleep that much.

Our “Sign With Your Baby” book/DVD arrived today while I was at work. I’m totally psyched! I know a few words in American Sign Language (ASL) and would love to be able to communicate with Kai in a language we both understand. Wish us luck!

My fancy smart-phone completely froze up yesterday, so I had to buy a new phone today. This thing plays live video off of the Internet, can ID the title and artist of nearly any song just by listening to it, shoots 15fps video and 1.3 megapixel photos. Oh yeah, and it also makes phone calls. I swear, it’s nearly impossible to find a modern cell phone that doesn’t have some complicated multimedia functionality built into it. And yet my phone still consistently drops calls right in front of the “fewest dropped calls” billboard on I-4. It would be nice if they stopped adding features and made the existing ones work really well. And don’t even get me started on rebates...