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!