Selina is a Rock Star

I got home from teaching today and the baby sitter was holding Selina, just up from her nap. Selina saw me, grinned ear-to-ear and began pumping her fist up and down in a very specific way.

"Are you signing milk?" I asked her.

Big grin, big fist pump.

Hmmm...

Maybe. Milk is the only sign I've really been giving her consistently. I sign and say milk two or three times right before each bottle.

I sat her in her high chair and fixed her lunch (it wasn't bottle time).

She started gobbling lunch happily and hungrily.

At one point, I fumbled around some between bites and it took a bit longer than the others.

Up goes her fist in the air again, "milk, milk, milk!!!" she signs.

I am sure of it.

She was using the only sign she knew that addressed her desire to eat to let me know I was spooning the food too slowly.

So we started on a new sign. I made the eat/food sign before each spoon bite after that and said either "eat" or "food" each time too.

Go Selina! It's her first word/sign.

Comments

[Susan]

Isn't that just the coolest thing to see? Yay, Selina!!!

[Munchkin's Mom]

Awesome! Milk was N's first sign too!

[QSMama / Lea]

So cool--those first "real" communications are so gratifying, and it's all more exciting from there.

(That is, until they get good enough to be sassy!)

Enjoy!

- Lea at Quick Serve Kids

[Beth]

You just keep on raising those geniuses! Stupendous. Way to go, Selina!