Signing...

For several months now we've been trying to work on teaching Molly some sign language. Just the basics like "milk", "more", "food/eat", "water" and "all done". We just thought it might help avoid tantrums until Molly starts to talk more and can actually tell us what she wants. We've tried hard to be consistent with signing during meals, but I'll admit, it's difficult! But we've kept at it as best we could.

Lately I've started to wonder if she's ever going to pick any signs up, mainly because they don't use signs at daycare. So she's only getting the reinforcement at breakfast & dinner and not during lunch & snacks. She's known the sign for "milk" for some time now and will occasionally sign it back to us. But that's been about all... until now! Finally, Molly's started to show us the sign for "more" when she's eating! She's still not consistent with it and at times, I think she's just simply clapping, but still it's really encouraging to see Molly starting to sign back. She also clearly understands "eat", which has been really helpful in showing Molly that we don't throw our food on the floor, but rather we eat it! Here's a little video clip of "more" from lunch about a week and a half ago...