Today during dinner Cleo did sign language for "more" and I actually understood what she wanted. We both smiled, giggled, and it was cool. And of course I gave her more food.
Well, I didn't know she even knew sign language until exactly one week ago.
Last Thursday was parent/teacher conferences at Cleo's daycare. One might think that a p/t conference for a baby in daycare would be silly...but since they spend more waking hours with her than we do, we thought it would be prudent to go. We learned that night that, developmentally, Cleo is either right where she needs to be or above average in all areas. We also learned that she is being taught sign language to communicate since she can't speak yet. I knew that this existed, but just haven't had the chance to really look into it much. And although she does get frustrated sometimes, I figured we were getting along pretty well without it for the most part.
So far they have taught her 3 words in sign language: please, more, and another one that I can't remember at this moment. Her teacher also showed me the signs for these words so that I could recognize them when she used them. Poor thing has probably been signing to me for weeks now, but I had no idea.
Anyway, she did the one for "more" tonight while eating dinner and it was awesome!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Say "Trixie"
Cleo said "Trixie" today. Well, actually, it sounded like Da-she or something to that effect, but she meant Trixie. I know this because she pointed at Trixie and said Da-she.
She was pretty proud of herself.
She is great at communicating but she is also getting very frustrated at times. She points at objects she wants. Sometimes she points at things she wants to know the name of. She constantly talks in her little language, which fluctuates between sounding like German or Japanese. She loves taking things out of other things or putting things into other things. She loves handing us stuff. She also loves picking specs of leaves or pine needles off the floor (even though we vacuum everyday the dogs bring in this stuff from the backyard so it's a constant battle) and handing them to us so we'll put them in the trash. She likes taking wipes and "cleaning" things.
She also likes climbing on Trixie. Trixie doesn't seem to mind and seems to have accepted her fate. She has yet to actually get up and move.
Tomorrow we may go visit Santa at the mall. Maybe.
She was pretty proud of herself.
She is great at communicating but she is also getting very frustrated at times. She points at objects she wants. Sometimes she points at things she wants to know the name of. She constantly talks in her little language, which fluctuates between sounding like German or Japanese. She loves taking things out of other things or putting things into other things. She loves handing us stuff. She also loves picking specs of leaves or pine needles off the floor (even though we vacuum everyday the dogs bring in this stuff from the backyard so it's a constant battle) and handing them to us so we'll put them in the trash. She likes taking wipes and "cleaning" things.
She also likes climbing on Trixie. Trixie doesn't seem to mind and seems to have accepted her fate. She has yet to actually get up and move.
Tomorrow we may go visit Santa at the mall. Maybe.
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