Time for FOOD!

We started our daughter on cereal this past week and after a few days she is starting to really enjoy it. This is the perfect time to introduce a new sign! Every time we sit down to eat I make sure and use the sign "EAT". She is not big enough to sit in the high chair yet, although that will be the next big introduction for her, so we use a small chair called a BUMBO. If you've never seen one, check them out. They are fantastic for helping little ones learn to sit up and it is coming in very handy now that we are beginning to feed her with a spoon. You can buy an attachable tray to go on the front of it which is coming in very handy lately. The other thing I really like about BUMBO is that it frees up my hands to sign to her. So, she is getting to practice sitting up and watching mommy's hands at eye level. When it is dinner time, I always put some music on, sit her in the BUMBO, and begin signing "EAT" with a very enthusiastic look on my face. She gets very excited! Soon we will move on to oatmeal from rice cereal, big things happening in my house these days!