Today was an amazing day for Samantha. The words just poured out of her. We got to the doctor’s office and she started yelling “Fish” before we even got out of the car. She remembered there was a fish tack in there and ran to it when we got in. I went through the names of the fish(which no longer matched the fish – clearly a high risk job to be a fish in a doctor’s office) and she yelled Pinky and Goldie at all of them, (the list is Pinky for the smallest, Whitey for the white one, Goldie for the big really deep gold one, and Spot for the one with a white spot.) While we waited for the doctor, she kept trying to find the fish again and it was all I could do to keep her in the room with me.

During her bath she pointed to her boat and said boat, staring right into my eyes and waiting for me to confirm what she said. Later she added Toy and Towel and Wash to her words. When we sat down for her nightly bottle and story, she said Monkey Book and pointed to the “Five Little Monkeys Jumped on the Bed” book. She said Music, and Light. I managed to get her to bed only with Daddy’s entrance and he put her down in the crib. Last night when she woke up in the middle of the night she was talking about doggie and tubbies. She didn’t go to sleep until I brought her to bed with me and showed her where the doggies and daddy were sleeping. She relaxed then and went right to sleep in her crib.

The doctor said she might be waking up in the night because she is having very vivid dreams and just needs some comforting. This sounds right to me. Physically she looks perfect to the Dr. McCarty, so that worry is gone. No earaches at all. Sam also is very conscious now of a wet diaper and does sleep better when I change her daiper.