Zapatos

Just shy of 17 months, Sammy still hasn't said a word, but he jabbers constantly, and he understands lots of words. The other day I said, as I usually do, in Spanish, "Donde estan los zapatos?" (Where are your shoes?). Sam ran to the dining room bench, retrieved his shoes from under it, and delivered them back to me. Suddenly I went from speaking blabber to communicating meaningful things to him. It was... A Moment.

Currently he is obsessed with putting on his shoes--or our shoes--which can absorb his focus for loooong periods of time. He doesn't ever seem to get frustrated. He just keeps trying and trying to work the shoes onto his feet, or tie them, or work the velcro, or whatever.