spelling, counting, and politics

I've gotten some fun movies of Ellis recently. These are taken roughly around eighteen moths post CI activation.

In the first, Ellis is fingerspelling the title to his bedtime story--and saying the letters as best he can (though he's not wearing his CI in this one, because he's going to bed). He loves to spell out the title of the books before we read them. Bedtime story is 98% of the time in ASL, because his CI is off for bed by that point. Every once in awhile, he wants it on. Anyway, he's just picked up the letters' spoken names, it's not something we've been working on in particular, though I'm sure they've done it some in school. We usually do say the letter when we sign it. Here is Ellis signing "A Pocket for Corduroy."

Ellis's favorite thing right now is counting. Here he is counting his cars with Daddy. I was trying to take the video surreptitiously, so sorry if it's not the clearest. And, of course, what's a blog without a little politics? Hey, E, who's the new president?