Baby Sign Language Thread #4

[amayzie]

a crying baby signing please?? Who is going to say no to that?

You are totally stuffed from now on. TOTALLY!!

[*Ali*]

Funnily enough Colby just learnt to sign please and now does it when he is asking for something. My sister was leaving the ther day and he was putting his arms up to her to go with her. when she said he was staying he started crying and signing please. Ah, so cute. I think she almost took him home with her just so she didn't have to say no bless him.

He has also been going into the kitchen and signing for food when he's hungry.

[Ima shel Alon]

Oh, Ali, that's so sweet. I think my heart would have started crying if I was in your sister's shoes.

[*Ali*]

Today I was trying to convince DH we should go out for dinner and he wasn't sure as Cadan was being grumpy. I was jokingly saying to Colby to say "please can we go Daddy" and he was signing please and saying Dada in a little expectant voice. Ha too cute. Luckily DH thought so too an we got our meal out

[katie80]

Today I was trying to convince DH we should go out for dinner and he wasn't sure as Cadan was being grumpy. I was jokingly saying to Colby to say "please can we go Daddy" and he was signing please and saying Dada in a little expectant voice. Ha too cute. Luckily DH thought so too an we got our meal out

Love it!!

Graham is 'pleasing' all over the place too and seems to be using it in place of 'more' sometimes as well.  We were building towers the other day and he was knocking them over.  After each time, he would sign 'please', so we started working on 'again', but he wasn't interested in that at all.

[Ima shel Alon]

We have a sign here for daycare, so today as I was taking Alon to daycare there was a man standing on the street and Alon just stopped infront of the man, looked at him and signed "daycare". So funny The man was pretty puzzled.

[*Ali*]

Ha ha Ima that is a classic.

Katie, why should he be interested in a new word when the please he currently has serves the purpose? Colby signs more for everything he wants even stuff he hasn't had any of yet.

[amayzie]

yeah- more around here means 'i'll have some of what you are eating' often

[anna*]

Sooooo many many signs! I know we shouldn't compare our children but honestly I dont think Stan was signing this much when he was 22 months old?

Hat, clothes, shoes, sleep, sad, bath, bubbles, cat, dog, outside, light, eat, drink, milk, more, please, water, snack, baby, bird, potty, help,

She is teething and feeling rotten, this evening she has been telling me she feels sad, but every time she does so it makes her start to cry

[*Ali*]

Ah Anna, that is so heartwrenching It probably helps that she has Stan to sign with her as well.

Colby is still signing away but no new ones. The other day Colby and I made breakfast together and then I told him to tell Cadan it was ready and he ran into the living room shouting Cadan's name and ran right up to him, stuck his face in Cadan's and signed eat. So cute

[C&B&E]

She is teething and feeling rotten, this evening she has been telling me she feels sad, but every time she does so it makes her start to cry

Oh gosh that is so sad and so adorable all at the same time!!

[katie80]

She is teething and feeling rotten, this evening she has been telling me she feels sad, but every time she does so it makes her start to cry

Oh gosh that is so sad and so adorable all at the same time!!

I thought the exact same!

Interesting that Audrey has many more signs than Stan.  Graham doesn't have nearly as many as Claire did at this age.  I wonder if it's a gender difference thing or just because I haven't worked with him as much.   Could be a little of both!

[Me.and.my.two.boys]

Hey ladies - I know C is only 9wo but I'm so interested in this and think ill follow along to pick up some tips for the future

[*Ali*]

Definitely Kelly. And ai don't think you can start too early, f only to get yourself in the habit of signing each time you say certain words and learning the ones you want so you're doing it with less effort by the time he hits 6mo and starts paying the signs more attention.

[Khalam's Mama]

I agree.