Yes yes yes, no no no

If you watched the Flintstones every day at lunch for eighteen years you would have caught the reference in the title of this particular entry. Believe me, it was a great episode and it included the Great Gazoo (which instantly catapults the episode in question as being one of the best).

A while ago, Elliot learned to say no. He has perfected it since and has added a very impressive head shaking to go with it. No, in fact, is probably his most pronounced word. True, it is a simple word and is hard to cut corners with but the way he says it seems very mature and impressive to me.

His mother and I have been trying over the last number of weeks (months?) to teach him the antithesis of no - which is YES for those of you who are unfamiliar (ahem - Clayton) with the english language.

A few times at dinner, while Elliot was emphatically saying "no" but sometimes meaning "yes", his mother and I tried to teach him how to say and show "yes". We looked up and then looked down and then looked up and then looked down. It was an alien idea to Elliot and when he finally tried it, he moved his whole upper body up and down and his head turned in a bit of a circle. He's still learning the move and has pretty much figured out how to say "yes" when he means "yes".