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ry in our house and whenever i turn it on i sign music it wasn t until my son had been signing for a month that i realized that every time i walked into the nursery holding him he would start flailing one arm wildly to tell me music when i finally caught on i felt like an idiot because i had been conscious of this behavior for a couple weeks but didn t make the connection he was about 11 months old my daughter is only 7 months old and i ve noticed that about half the time when i turn on the cd player she starts waving one arm back and forth the same uncoordinated way he did the reason i am not entirely sure if she is legitimately signing is because 1 she does it equally as often for no apparent reason and 2 she won t do it when i say the word music like my son would at 11 months however i am confident that even if she hasn t fully made the connection yet within a week or two she ll get it while music is the only sign that she is actually capable of making the motions for at the moment using signs has made it very clear to me that she understands words if i make the make the sign for milk and say our word for nursing nummies she will immediately stop crying and lunge face first toward my chest if i am not holding her and she is fussing if i say up up up while holding my arms out to her she will also usually stop crying and look at me expectantly waiting for me to pick her up here are some other ways we have been signing with our daughter in the past month that illustrate her growing understanding of the human language 1 she is fascinated with ceiling fans whenever i catch her looking at fans i sign and say the word for fan to reinforce this concept sometimes when we re at home i ll turn a fan on and off again demonstrating the sign for her the way i know that she is understanding is that if i say and sign the word fan she will almost always look up this works whether we re at home or at a restaurant or somewhere else unfamiliar if i tell her fan and she s paying attention she ll start looking for one 2 one of her other favorite hobbies is eating with my son we made a big deal about signing eat more and all done while feeding him however our feeding method with our second child is much more unstructured than with our first giving us less opportunity to use these signs in this context since i m frequently preparing food while holding the baby i often give her tiny pieces of food while i m holding her half the time she is already trying to grab the food anyway but the other half the time she usually has her eyes glued to whatever her older brother is doing in the beginning i struggled to get her to pay attention to me long enough to understand i was trying to offer her something but since i started consistently signing and saying eat whenever i put anything in her mouth she now whips around to see what i have every time she hears the word eat 3 we have also introduced a number of animal signs with our daughter we use signs for her toys giraffe turtle etc i also put calendar pictures of animals on the wall that she likes to look at wolf gorilla etc she likes these wall pictures so much that when she starts crying while someone else is holding her i tell them to go take her to see the wolf and she ll usually stop complaining and start smiling even laughing sometimes especially if they say wolf and make a howling noise the way i know she is starting to understand these signs is that if i put a small selection of toys in front of her hippo tiger and turtle for example and ask her to touch one of them she gets it right more than half the time amazon product page affiliate link my review 7 to 8 months here are some new ways we re effectively communicating with our daughter the past month in addition to the ways described before 1 there is a desk lamp next to our bed that i use for reading one morning while she was lying in bed with me i started signing light and then turned the light on and off telling her light on light off i am absolutely sure she understands this word at least in this one context because she will immediately look to the desk lamp if i sign light for her unfortunately at the moment i can wave around wildly at the ceiling to try and draw her attention to those lights as well but she hasn t seemed to make the connection that a light is anything other than this one object 2 i have of course been using the sign for dog with our daughter since we have a dog recently i was reading a book to my older son with my daughter sitting near us on the floor when i said the word doggie she immediately started patting her leg i wasn t sure if it was just a coincidence but then a little later i said the word piggie while reading the same book and again she started patting her leg while i m not 100 sure i m pretty sure she was responding to the word though obviously not sensitive yet to the distinction between doggie and piggie since then i have been more consistently signing dog for her whenever we do anything with our dog feed her let her out etc and she seems to be using it pretty consistently too she still won t sign on command though so it s hard to say for absolute certain but i m pretty sure she knows dog recently i think she may have even been trying to snap we use the pat and snap sign for dog in our house 3 on thanksgiving day which is also right around the 8 month mark our daughter started very clearly signing the word for milk a fluent asl speaker would have no question about what she was doing the movements were so precise however i m not sure if she was actually signing milk since she was doing it so often without any apparent desire to nurse if anything it seemed like she might be trying to wave at all the people given how many new faces she saw that day or maybe she thought everyone was signing milk to her when they were saying hello and goodbye so she just decided to tell them milk back it s been a little over a week but she now seems exceedingly happy and proud when she makes the sign and i offer to let her nurse even if she s not really hungry so i think she knows what it means 8 to 9 months there hasn t been much change during the past month except for the loss of the sign for milk she seems to have realized that it s more effective to pull at my shirt and make complaining noises than to politely sign milk like she was doing before however during the past week she has started doing several new signs or noises to indicate the names of animals we have pictures of animals from old calendars all over our walls she has always gotten extremely excited whenever we paused to look at one of the pictures but just recently she has started doing more animal signs in addition to her leg pat for doggie 1 fish she clearly waves her hand around in a very deliberate way whenever she either sees a picture of a fish or here s the word fish or fishie 2 monkey she makes a noise that is kind of like who for the monkey picture my 3 year old son says she s making an owl noise but she clearly thinks she s making a monkey noise 3 wolf she holds her hand in front of her face and or makes a high pitched noise whenever she sees the wolf her favorite 4 gorilla she uses open hands to pat my chest when she sees the gorilla instead of closed fisted beating her own 5 dragon this one is actually our humidifier and not a picture but she makes a really cute haaaa noise for dragon and sometimes puts her hand in front of her face the sign i have been showing her uses one hand to illustrate a dragon breathing fire and i frequently make a quiet combination ha roaring noise to accompany it 9 to 10 months i really think i ve been slacking off the past month on my signing i m resolving to do better in the coming month however she has had some improvement this month despite my lack of effort 1 potty when i signed potty at her once she kind of waved her fist back and forth in imitation later when her brother was going potty she made the sign again 2 eat she brings her fist to her mouth repeatedly 3 frog bird she is making motions for both frog and bird but they look identical instead of pointing her fingers outward she points them inward she basically flaps her hand such that all her fingers touch her mouth 4 clapping it s not really a sign but she also learned how to clap this month and is very very pleased if you say the word clapping to acknowledge her efforts 10 to 11 months her signing and talking have really taken off this month she clearly understands that everything has a label now in the beginning she seemed over joyed every time someone understood her but now she s growing to expect it today we were at the grocery store and she started doing her flappy frog bird duck sign which usually means frog i asked her if she saw a frog and looked around sure enough there was a stuffed easter frog about 3 feet away it s the first time she s really called my attention to something i didn t already know about and i was pretty darn impressed with myself for getting it right she wasn t though she just stopped signing it like okay finally you get it anyway here are a few of her new or improved methods of communication 1 turtle wiggles her thumb 2 more claps instead of putting her fingertips together like the asl sign 3 ball claps instead of showing the shape of a ball like the asl sign 4 wolf says owwwww 5 cow says ooooo like moo but without the m sound 6 hi waves and says hi 7 mama says mama or mamamamama 8 daddy says dada dad or daddy 9 bear rubs chest with one hand instead of scratching with both hands 10 shower does something similar to milk but up high really not too bad an approximation of asl sign 11 panda waves hand in front of face with fingers in awkward position definitely attempting asl sign 12 noodle makes a funny diddle diddle diddle noise 13 baby clasps hands together and moves side to side 14 cat makes a meow like noise that sounds more like mmm ow 15 nose touches the nose of whoever is holding her 11 to 12 months this month she continues to be extremely interested in communication she s really gaining control over how she produces sounds and because of this is already starting to try saying words rather than signing for her older brother signs dominated until he was 18 months while with her i think words are already starting to dominate however i still feel that the signing we do with her is extremely useful because it reinforces the vocabulary that she already knows and is learning she also had her first complex two word sentence this month she s said things before like hi dad and numa num mama translation time to nurse mama but at about 11 5 months she handed me a toy that was supposed to have balls with it and said up she does this frequently throughout the day so i knew she was asking for help i said how do you want help and she said up bow which i knew to translate to help ball or more clearly hey mom where are the balls for this thing help me out i m extremely grateful for the word help because every time she starts to get frustrated with something i ll say do you need help and she ll immediately calm down say up and look at me expectantly my husband was also impressed because he took her for a walk and she started saying mow rhymes with cow repeatedly which is her word for cat or meow it took him another couple minutes to spot the cat it was so far away 1 baby can very clearly say baby applies to dolls other babies and herself 2 night night repeats nigh nigh back to us unclear if she knows what it means since she doesn t usually willingly go to sleep 3 nursing says numa numa or some similar variation 4 hat says and signs hat perfectly 5 ball love to say ball and play with balls but it sounds more like bow with lips puckered at end 6 lizard sounds a lot like her word for noodle kind of like diddle or liddle 7 turtle also sounds like diddle but maybe with more of a t at the beginning 8 bear says and signs bear but the r is silent 9 yay claps and says yay will do this spontaneously when someone sings twinkle twinkle little star 10 blow can say bow and blow out a candle 11 belt tries to say belt when touching daddy s belt but l is silent 12 elk tries to say elk when she sees the calendar picture of an elk but again l is silent 13 uh oh says uh oh perfectly the first time was copying mama but one day later says it appropriately when she drops something 14 wee says wee when she goes down a slide 15 bib says bib perfectly and spontaneously when she finds a bib 16 beep touches people s noses and says beep 17 ear says ear with a silent r and points to people s ears 18 egg tries to say egg 19 help says help frequently throughout the day when she wants something opened or taken apart sounds a lot like up 20 up says up very clearly when she wants to be picked up or go upstairs 21 down says dow for down when she wants to crawl downstairs never asks to be put down 22 apple says ap for apple which also sounds a lot like up 23 nana can say nana for her grandmother 24 mimi can say mimi for her other grandmother 25 pop can says pop for her grandfather who we call grandpop 26 dishes signs do the dishes very well when i showed her the sign while doing the dishes also tries to say dishes 12 to 14 months what can t she say now i still use signs to reinforce words all the time but she has definitely shown a preference for attempting to say words however she will attempt the sign if i m clearly not understanding her meaning for example the other day she was nursing then looked at me and seemed to say die but it was stretched out almost like two syllables die eee daddy i said she repeated her word but this time waved her hand in a very deliberate way daddy went bye bye i asked seemingly very annoyed with me she took her hand and shoved at my chest clearly telling me to put her milk away ohhhh i said you re all done i was rewarded with a huge smile and a look that said yes now you get it i think i probably will not do another update until she s 18 months old unless she starts doing something very specific and unexpected over the next 4 months but here s a list of what she can say sign as well as a description of exactly what it is she does or says this list does not include all the words which she clearly understands but doesn t yet effectively communicate word signs says comments 1 mama x 2 daddy x 3 dog x x dock 4 cat x mmmm ow 5 duck x says perfectly 6 truck x duck 7 stuck x duck 8 clock x dock 9 broke x boke 10 help x x hup 11 cow x moo 12 sheep x bah 13 pig x x uck oink 14 horse x a neigh 15 dragon x whispered roar 16 wolf x ow 17 deer x x de uh 18 elk x ek 19 monkey x hoo hoo 20 gorilla x 21 fish x 22 towel x towe l 23 belt x be l t 24 bib x 25 hi x x 26 bye x x 27 ball x x 28 monday x mon ney 29 spoon x poon 30 water x wa er 31 eat x x 32 milk x 33 more x x moe 34 want it x wan ih 35 no x 36 yeah x x whole body nod 37 yay x 38 uh oh x 39 train x too too 40 dinosaur x x die nuh 41 dance x whole body wiggle 42 penguin x 43 octopus x oct 44 bug x 45 ...