Madeline is becoming more expressive with her hands these days, and the latest fads are waving and pointing. She's been doing these things for a while, but it seems as if recently she's associating the gestures with concepts.
She often waves in response to someone waving at her, even to the point where she'll mimic the number of hands you're using - wave with one hand and she'll do the same; wave with two and she copies.
Her pointing is generally directed at something she's interested in, and not random. There have been a few surprising occasions when I've asked her to locate something - a specific toy or the cat - and she'll point right to it.
For a while it seemed as if her gestures were limited to certain hands - she would only wave with her left and would point with her right, sometimes at the same time. But in recent days she's shown that she is ambidextrous when it comes to these particular skills (and others, too - she always seems to have two fistfulls of Cheerios at the same time!).
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