Jumping Peiton & Bode's communication skills

Peiton loves to jump! My friend Keysha let me borrow her "Johnny Jump Up" and Peiton has absolutely loved it. She has liked it so much that I am going to have to buy Keysha a new one because Peiton has jumped so much the rope is starting to fray. I had to get it on camera because she is the cutest little jumper.

When I was recording Peiton jumping, I caught a little clip of Bode trying to communicate. Life is crazy with a 3 year old that is not even close to talking. I give him props though, he does a great job at trying to let me know what he wants. Collin the other day was so frustrated that he said "I would give my right foot just to have him talk!" He was pretty frustrated, but I really believe he would give his foot to have Bode talk, it would help Bode's frustration and ours.

The Emoticon

Ever since I have been blogging, I would read someone's blog and see all these funky punctuation marks all over. I thought to myself what are these? Did I miss something in English class? :-/ There has to be some new punctuation rule going on. So, about a week ago I google-ed "how to use correct punctuation." And "What are Emoticons" came up. I clicked on it and found all the punctuation that I had been seeing... amazement!! It was pretty cool, all of these little punctuations were people's feelings. I love it! So, now I feel I can understand you better when reading your blogs, I can feel your real emotions...what will they come up with next. :) Now I have posted a few of the meanings to some of these neat EMOTICONS we see every now and then, in case there are some that had no clue like I had no clue. (I am sure everyone knew what they meant, and I am the only clueless one here. I just found out what LOL means like 2 months ago...thanks, Kristen!)

:) smile

:-( frown
;-) wink
:(```` crying
>:) mischevious grin
:-/ smirk or confused
:-P smiling and sticking out your tongue
:-D laughing hard
>:-\ mad