Matea is following directions, too!

Just a quick note before I head off to work -- when Eli was 18 months old, Jeremy and I "tested" him by handing Eli one of his toys, and asking him to put it in the trash (just for the sake of a non-obvious instruction, to prove that Eli really could understand what we were telling him).

Missy and I gave the same test to 15-month-old Matea yesterday, and she did it! Her test was easier, in that we had given her an actual piece of trash (a dirty napkin) to throw away, and she was already in the kitchen next to the trash can, but we were still pretty impressed when she toddled over to the trash can and put the napkin inside, given that she isn't saying all that many words of her own yet!