Kisses

The baby has a(nother) party trick - apart from shaking her head, she now 'kisses' on command.

It started out with her making funny faces and kind of kissing noises a few weeks ago. She'd look at you and then suck her bottom lip in to her mouth as far as she could, making her mouth almost look like a pointy little beak. Unintentionally, we started saying 'kisses' when she did it, and making kissing noises back. Not to teach her (the husband already makes all the usual father jokes about her never being allowed to have a boyfriend), but just because it was sweet to do it back.

I think that combining this with the husbands hobby of kissing the baby (and proclaiming 'KISSES!!!' as he does it) to make her laugh and laugh and laugh, has brought it on - now you can say it, and she'll do it.

It seems the more that it seems like when we trained the puppies, the more I realise how important repetition is to learning!