On Thursday at lunch time I was showing Melanie how to say "Thank You" in sign language. I didn't really expect her to be able to do it, but I figured if I start showing her the few signs that I know now, then she'll pick them up sooner. Later that day, when Jon came home from work we were sitting and watching TV. Melanie started to get into something that we didn't want her to get into, so we told her stop and go play with the toys. Surprisingly, she crawled away from what she was doing. So I told her, "Thank you." She actually stopped crawling and signed "Thank you." I hadn't noticed, but Jon was looking at her and so he said to me, "Is that the sign for thank you?" We were both so surprised that she had picked up the sign so quickly. Unfortunately, she has only done it a few more times since then.
3 comments:
I absolutely love baby sign! Have you seen the videos "Baby Signing Time with Rachel?" They are awesome. She does songs to signs that are very fun and entertaining. All of my kids get a kick out of watching them. Plus it helps me justify letting the kids watch TV:)
Oh, I love Signing Time too!!! There's the regular series and then the baby series. They're great! Victoria knows quite a few signs now, and she thinks it's so funny to learn a new one! For me, it's so nice that she just signs milk instead of screaming and throwing a tantrum!
I don't have any signing movies, but it sounds like I should get some. I only know a few signs, that I've seen in books. I think that the extent of my signing knowledge is please, thank you, more, and all done.
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