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!
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