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Signing Time

I don’t know what we’d do without our signing videos. We nearly burned up our portable DVD player going up and down the coast of Maine, playing “My Baby Can Talk” over and over again to keep Rosy occupied. Rosy is not a kid who sits still and ponders life. She needs constant stimulation. I’m more thoroughly convinced now then ever, that some of her baby grumpiness was simple frustration. Now that she’s moving, talking, and participating in our lives, she’s as happy as the sun is bright. Unless she’s strapped in a car.

That said, she loves signing. She can’t get enough, and she’s learning so fast. We started with the My Baby Can Talk series and have moved on to Baby Signing Time. I am here to say it- they WORK. They really do. For the past couple months we’ve played them at the same time every day (it’s our early morning ritual). Within a week, Rosy has each video memorized. At this point, she can anticipate the sign to come and starts before the video even gets there. This week’s favorites are celestial in nature: day, night, star, moon, sun, rain, wind, outside. Better even, she learns to speak the word with every sign, like some connection is happening with the doing and the speaking. It’s magic.

Here are the ladies signing one night at dinner:

Signing from Ellen on Vimeo.