I love chocolate, dark, milk, white, hot, cold, frozen, chocolate.

Everyone knows it. My son can say a dozen words. One of them is cocoa.

So I had to try Starbucks new “sipping chocolate” to see if it was up to all the hype.

It is. It TOTALLY is. It is like drinking brownie batter. It is the perfect blend of dark chocolate bite with the right amount of sweet. Mine was the perfect temperature for hot chocolate and the perfect consistency. Best chocolate experience since my first taste of Godiva in high school.

Deeeeelicious

So Friday Carl’s daycare teachers reported that he had a whopping two servings of hamburger for lunch. We were impressed with his appetite, but thought little else of it. Gus’s son eating a lot of meat is certainly not news to anyone.

Then Saturday Carl starts making this hand signal every time he wants something we’re eating coupled with something sounding much like the word “more”. Impressed with his verbal ability we give him whatever he’s asked for (as we are wont to do) and went on thinking his vocabulary was really coming along.

Then by Sunday the hand gesture was more than we could brush off. He did it EVERY time. Tapping his little fingers together and staring intently at his nearly empty plate. So I did a little looking into it and it seems our boy has picked up more than just a verbal vocabulary, he’s started to sign.

Maybe that daycare investment is worth it afterall. Can’t wait until tomorrow morning to talk to his teachers and see what else he might be trying to tell us. Amazing!