she signed!

[babycatcher33]

Charlotte came over to me tonight and was making her usual whimper/whine/point to let me know she wanted to nurse.  I keep making the "milk" sign, trying to encourage her to sign instead of whine, yanno?  So today I had her sitting in my lap facing me and I was trying to get her to sign "milk" and I saw her making the sign for "more

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[hopefullytrying]

Alex will make his own version of the MORE sign.
he sorta claps.
So whatever works!! LOL
And he will NOT do the milk sign or please.
And yah, I soooooo hear you on not wanting to hear the whining and wimpering!
ugh.

[skyladagaz]

thats wonderful!! I took ASL 1 last semester in college. I am for sure teaching it to my baby one day, it's so useful. & helps in communication with them.

[midnightsangel]

We taught Nicholas to sign at a young age. He's had problems with his ears and hearing since he was born. Finally they put tubes in and its been great ever since (except when they fell out but they quickly got put back in). Because of his hearing problems, he used to sign ALOT and people couldn't believe he could talk and sign.

He still to this day will sign some things such as more :)

I can speak (that always makes me laugh) sign language. My grandmother is deaf and I've been signing for years. It's a good thing to learn and you will always be in great demand if you can sign.

My downstairs neighbour is ALWAYS ringing my door asking for help because she's deaf and can only speak sign language and her husband can only speak and understand french. Well I do both so I'm pretty much the only person around that can help them with repair men etc.

Anyway, good luck teaching Charlotte :)

[babycatcher33]

You're lucky have such a variety of languages available to you. All the baby sign language I've learned has come from Baby Einstein ;-)

[babycatcher33]

That's good, thanks! With Kim and Julia we taught them to say 'good bye' when it was time to leave a toy on the shelf, leave the playground etc. I didn't know baby sign language with them, so doing that was really helpful and prevented a lot of tantrums too!

[tesslouise]

That's what I did with Natalie. She'd willingly say goodbye to the playground, library, whatever. Spencer at the same age didn't have nearly as much language, so I usually wound up herding/carrying him. :p