The beauty of language

Dylan is getting bigger and smarter by the second. Every day I'm amazed at the new concepts she grasps and how much she understands of what I say. In the grocery store the other day she was walking with me and she stopped to pull down some of those cylindrical salt containers. She pulled two of the containers down and I asked her to put them back. She tried to pick one of them up with one hand and I suggested that she might need to use two hands. She immediately picked each container up with both hands and replaced them on the shelf. What I'm really waiting for though, is for her to learn how to talk to me. She's been teething, sick and who knows what else over the last few weeks and it's incredibly frustrating for her not to be able to tell us what's wrong. She was waking up in the middle of the night and screaming for 2 hours unless we would go get her. When we would go get her she would immediately either want to get up and play, or just rest her head on our shoulder and basically fall back asleep (until we put her back down). I tried getting her, feeding her, changing her diaper and then putting her back down while rubbing her back and singing to her; however, she still screams at us for another 30 minutes after I leave the room. I must admit that part of the reason I want to be able to communicate with her better is so that I can say: "if you keep wining at me for no reason I'm gonna spank that little booty of yours", but mostly it's so that I can know what it is that is bothering her. Is she hurting or just mad that she's in her room; one makes me sad and the other a bit annoyed, but not knowing what the crying is for is worse than both.
I'm down to the last couple weeks of classes and I'm both panicking and excited. The nice thing is that it will be over no matter what in a few weeks, the bad is that I have an ass-ton (pardon my french) of work to do before then. On top of all the school work, I'm desperately trying to find a job in a market that just does not seem interested. Just to make the pressure a bit more real, Sarah is pregnant again which makes her more anxious about my lack of employment. For all of you Engineering employers reading this, give me a buzz.
Well, that's about it, I'm posting a couple movies that you should find entertaining. The first is Dylan performing all her best tricks, the other is of her doing self induced manual labor.

~Charlie