The Tangrens

I'll bet all of you who are familiar with Signing time are singing the song right now! We'd borrowed a signing time DVD when he was around 5 months but basically just learned the signs ourselves and tried to work with him face to face rather than use the DVD. The signs we used a lot were "More, All done and eat/food" but he never really did anything with it. Hyrum always is begging for our food when we eat dinner and grabs at it if he gets anywhere near it. Derek had him on his lap during dinner and Hyrum was ravenous so we gave him some tastes as we dutifully signed "more". Then all of a sudden he started clapping. I didn't think anything of it at first but then it hit me...I wonder if he's doing the sign for "more". He kept doing it- not consistantly of course but it's was a start!!!



As the days go by we are seeing that sometimes he puts his hands together by his mouth and then puts one hand to his mouth. He may be learning yet!

He claps/signs "more" with one hand closed and one hand open as you can see. It might just be a boy thing. :) He has started to wave as well! We still need to work on pointing to things and pictures in books. I'll let you know how it goes.