2008-06-06T16:35:00.000-07:00

Ok it's been a while but I am dedicated to writing every day. My little darling is now two and she has an awesome vocabulary. She pretty much uses verbal speech now but is able to sign just about anything and responds appropriately when I sign to her ie I will prompt her to say please or thank you from across the room and she looks like she remembered herself!

Her brother who is now 5 has become a great signer again this year. He now has an interest in putting sentences together and wants to know the sign for everything. They both LOVE Signing Time videos which we sell on our website http://www.labelandlearn.com/. I keep loaning our personal set to my friends and clients and I guess it's time for me to break in to a new complete set. Our favorite is the Zoo Train.

2007-08-31T14:38:00.000-07:00

Well here is my first attempt at blogging about sign language. I am a mom and speech-language pathologist. I started signing with my baby Addi, when she was about six months old. She is now fifteen months and signing like a champ!

She can sign: more, eat, please, drink (her sign looks like the sign for pig), all done, elephant, lion, monkey (she signs this as she swings from the highchair tray), milk, cookie, baby, love, cow, dog and- I'm sure I am forgetting some.

Here she is in her "I Love Daddy" sign t-shirt.

Her first sign was dog when she was seven months. We were at the Denver Museum of Natural History. We were shocked! Then any animal she saw she would sign dog. So cute.

Now she signs dog every morning and walks to the back door where my sister's dog is kept when she visits. I have taught her to sign "dog please" to her Daddy because we are campaigning for a new dog. Our dog died a few weeks before Addi was born.

.......Signing with my baby