Two interesting milestones

Lately, we have been hitting some interesting milestones. These are not milestones like walking, teething, etc. They're more like "wow! CJ is becoming a little person!" kind of milestones.

Sometime around Easter, CJ began bringing books to people, handing the story to her chosen reader, and then smacking herself on the chest as if to say "read to ME! ME!" It's very cute, and it works every time. No one can resist, even if he or she has read that same inane book (why does she ALWAYS want to read Giggles with Daddy???) to her 40 times already that afternoon.

The milestone event I was really impressed with happened yesterday while we were Skyping with NanaB. NanaB had just finished reading CJ a story (which CJ sat very still through and seemed to really enjoy), and CJ climbed down from her big blue chair and toddled away. She quickly returned with one of her favorite Sandra Boynton books (Moo, Baa, La La La) and held it up to NanaB's image on the computer and smacked herself in the chest with the free hand. That's when it finally hit us that she really is making a connection between the books NanaB reads to her and the books she has strewn about her own playroom! CJ then either figured out that she couldn't actually give the book to NanaB or decided that Mommy was the next best option since NanaB hadn't taken the book yet, so she handed it to me instead and climbed into my lap. As luck would have it, NanaB does have that identical book up in Michigan, so she ran and got it and read it to CJ while I helped CJ follow along with her own copy. It was ridiculously adorable.

The next milestone was goofier. The big joke on TV shows is the little kid getting a hold of the family telephone and somehow calling Japan. Well, CJ may not have been able to make an international call, but she did manage to somehow dial up Daddy at work by hitting one of the saved numbers (or, now that I think about it, probably by hitting "redial" since I most likely called Corey at work on that phone last). I hung up the phone when I realized what the little goofball was doing, but Corey called right back and asked if I had just called him. Busted by called ID! At least it wasn't Japan...