Evidence of Gia's intelligence ...

Gia is both smart and funny! The latest evidence:

1. By 6am, she's signing to put on her shoes and go outside to see the birds and squirrels (and has recently added "Nana!" to remind us that she wants to go out with Nana).
2. She goes directly for the "outside clothes and shoes" box by the door and opens it when she deems that it's time to play outside.
   
3. She has 38 signs, and is starting to put them together (turkey = "big" + "bird").
   
4. She loves goat brie cheese, and refused to eat her broccoli until it had at least a smudge of brie on it.
5. She hands us the remote control to the ipod dock and starts to dance when she wants us to play music.
6. This morning, she removed from a canister one roll of toilet paper (TP) wrapped in paper, and I asked her to put it in the cabinet. She opened the cabinet and sized up the contents (many rolls of TP, and the stack closest to her was made of two unwrapped rolls on top of two wrapped ones), then carefully took out two unwrapped rolls and put them on the ground, and put her wrapped roll on top of the "matching" ones ... then tried to stack the unwrapped rolls on that. Hm.
7. Before Drew put her in her crib tonight, she pointed to the white noise machine to remind him to turn it on.
8. Before bed, she kisses pictures of the family.

That's it for today!