Imitating

I took Elliott walking in the mini mall today and a lady walked by and started coughing and covering her mouth while doing it.  Elliott started following her and pretended to cough and cover his mouth, too.  The lady thought it was funny and said, "Well at least he knows to cover his mouth when he does it!"  I have heard horror stories of kids repeating things they see strangers do in public that brings something embarrassing to the attention of everyone and I know that will be us one day soon!

He sometimes says "Down" which again sounds like "Da" but he does it when he wants to go Up as well.  "Da" means many things in our house...Daphne, Dada, Dog, Down, Done, and I'm sure there's more that I'm not even thinking of.

I'm thinking of registering us for a "signing time" session with the Momcat Signing Academy in the area.  We don't really have time for Music Together plus Signing Time, and I think he's at a good age right now to really utilize all the signs he could be learning.  Plus they only offer it certain days of the week and luckily one of them is Thursday morning which is my ONLY morning I will have free the entire week starting January.

My January - April schedule looks a little something like this:

Monday - Programming 9-12

Tuesday - Clinicals likely 9-4 or something

Wednesday - Programming 9-12, Fieldworkclass 1-4, Social work 420-615

Thursday - Social work 530-615pm

Friday - Programming 9-12

Elliott's schedule looks like this:

Monday - 8:30-5 daycare

Tuesday - 8:30-6 daycare

Wednesday -7:30-7:30 home daycare with a friend

Thursday - 4-7:30 babysitter at home

Friday - 8:30-3:30 daycare

But because it takes me an hour to drive to Ypsilanti plus I have to drop him off at the daycare or sitters beforehand, I need an hour and a half before and after class to accommodate for the commute.

SO...
Monday I'll leave at 7:30am and get home around dinner.

Tuesday I'll leave at 730 am get home around dinner.

Wednesday I leave 730am and get home at 7:45-8

Thursday I leave at 400 get home at 7:30

Friday I leave at 730 get home late afternoon.

And of course, Jared will be working Monday-Saturday during this same time because it is busy season so I will be doing this solo.  I've been cooking freezer meals in advance to try to help but I know everything in the house is going to fall apart and I won't be able to keep up.  I'm a little worried but people do it all the time...?