Full Circle

We're pretty close to the 2 year mark and we have started to turn signs into spoken word! Signs that my daughter has been using since she started learning Baby Signs are now becoming spoken words. For example, over the last few days the sign for MORE has gone from just a sign, to a sign and spoken word, to just a spoken word. That's how it works! I did not force it, just waited for her to figure it out on her own, and she did.

Sign Explosion!

It's all happening now! All of a sudden my 22 month old has started signing like crazy! All of the demonstrating, over and over, has now started to develop into language. Just at the same time that she is starting to use more spoken words, she is filling in the harder to pronounce words by signing them. She is also signing and speaking some of the words at the same time. Right now it is a wonderful mix of speech and signs and I'm finally getting more of an idea of what she is really thinking, feeling and learning about. For example, the signs I am seeing are tricycle, table, chair, apple, Mommy, Daddy, drink, kiss, baby, swing, butterfly, dog, sleeping, flower, wind, milk, cereal, fish, bear, potty, wash hands, shoes, book, bib, grapes, microwave, ball as well as all the signs she has been using since the beginning. It's a language explosion!