Iris has started narrating her activities: "I'm walking!" "I'm cooking!" (enthusiastically banging her miniature set of pots and pans together) "I'm sleeping!" (when obviously, she is not) and "I'm all naked!" All used in contextually appropriate ways, although I have my doubts she understands "I'm" and "all." I'm merely the scribe.
On to the art. With the advent of warm weather, we moved artistic endeavors outside and bravely plunged into the world of paint. Iris now can name a number of colors, her favorite being yellow, and particularly enjoys mixing more and more yellow into whatever project is at hand. (She also enjoys the yellow carshare Mini-Cooper stationed across the street and we frequently have to go touch it.) There was some unfortunate confusion about the word "brush" earlier this week (one type gets rubbed against your teeth, so why not put the other type in your mouth?) but after a couple repeats of my wiping paint off her tongue, she's straightened it out. Here she is hard at work:
