Sixty signs and counting!!!

Wow, I can't believe it's been nearly a month since I lost blogged!  A couple of weeks ago I drafted a blog with graphs and everything to illustrate her signing progress- but I couldn't get the graphs to post!  Urgh- that made me soooo frustrated!  Anyway, so now I am back from my blogging break : )

Ella knows over 60 signs now!!!  She's constantly learning new signs.  The signs she uses on a regular (almost daily) basis and without our prodding, include : daddy, mommy, milk, more, eat, hot, done, wash hands, potty, airplane, bird, flower, dog, bug, bath, napkin, no, shoes, hat, apple, banana, telephone, baby, bear.... I might be missing a few!  Sometimes she'll sign please, thank you and sorry if we prod her : )  She's also now getting better and better at saying "shoes" and "keys" two of her favorite things!  Oh, and she now says "Daddy" instead of "Dada."  She's also starting to put words together - "my daddy!"  The first time she did it was when Ryan swooped up Donovan (her cousin) right when he got home from work- she also signed my daddy madly!  It's funny how babies can throw their emotions into their signs : )  She also just said "my daddy" a bit earlier - although not madly!  She's also trying to say "I want down" instead of just "down" - Ryan and Johnny (Uncle Johnny to Ella) also think that's what she's saying- so it's not just me!

Signing has been so much fun for all of us!  I really recommend it for all babies/toddlers!  Especially if you're going to show your baby shows on TV - then you might as well pop in something like Signing Time!  Ella loves it, and we both have learned tons from it.  If they had a home based business where you sold their DVDs at house parties, I would do it!  I just think there's so many benefits in babies learning to sign, that I wish everyone knew about it.

Well, I would write more but we are at Jitter's Coffee right now, and Ella is demanding more attention than I can give her while typing!  I would add pics/video if I could make up my mind on any- next time!  Hopefully it won't be so long til the next blog!