Baby Signs!

We have a copy of Joseph Garcia's Sign With Your Baby, and it's pretty cool. The things he says in the video make a lot of sense. But after I tried to get Monkey to sign "cheese" and he said "cheese" instead, I kinda gave up on ever getting much in the way of signs from him. After all, he had been waving bye-bye for a long time, had about 20 spoken words, and just didn't seem to be very interested.

Then he started signing more. Now we've seen more, apple, all done, all gone, and oh yes, cheese, all in just a week or two. This afternoon I discovered a lovely American Sign Language dictionary that has videos of people doing the signs! It's wonderful - and they have a special section for "baby sign," which is where they've separated out the most common signs that you want to teach to little kids.