What? Are you stupid or something?

Jonah is an excellent communicator; he talks non-stop. The only problem is that we aren't always the best listeners. Tonight, while putting Jonah to bed, he kept asking for something. I wasn't sure what he wanted. Carrie has spoiled him at bed time such that he will often not sit through a bed-time story until he has all of his animals and blankets in his arms; this makes reading a story somewhat awkward. I assumed this is what he wanted.

"unintelligible something"
"You want your dog?" (I didn't think it was right. That is usually doggie)
"No. Unintelligible something"
"You want your blanket?"
"No. This. Want _THIS_!!!" He gives me the JSL (Jonah Sign Language) symbol for water.
"You want water?"
"Yes. I've been telling you that for 10 minutes now, for crying out loud!"

Okay, I made that last part up but I was pretty impressed with his problem solving skills. By the way, the difference between the ASL and JSL symbols for water is that in JSL it just uses the pointer finger as opposed to making a W with three fingers.

On an unrelated note Sophie and I were playing hide and seek today. Jonah was helping. When it was my turn to hide it was practically impossible to stay hidden as Jonah would run over to me and scream or try to pull me out of hiding. The only time that I could hide was when I managed to trick him into looking the other way while I ran; then they both had a good time looking for me. On Sophie's turn, Jonah was our seeker. He would walk around the house pondering where she could be. I mean it. He was pondering. He would put his finger to his chin and say, "Hmmmmmmm." He would also check all the previous spots she had hidden one by one. After he determined she wasn't in a spot he would stop, put his finger back on his chin and "hmmm" again.