Saturday, January 23, 2010

Sign of the Times

My parents went to a signing with babies workshop last weekend. That made them all excited to sign all the time. Here is the American Sign Language (ASL) online dictionary; there's a bit for babies on there too. My parents are using the following words, in order of importance....or appearance:
  1. milk
  2. potty
  3. more
  4. burp (getting burped)
  5. sleep
  6. diaper
  7. daddy
  8. mama
  9. change
  10. where
  11. up
  12. down -- hasn't been used yet, going to make it in soon
  13. kisses -- same...I need to be warned when my daddy is going to smother me
Look them up and you can use them too. It's kind of cool to think I could know another language...that ASL could be my first language...wow!

2 comments:

Madhavi said...

Where did you guys take this class?

TPS-SheilaP said...

maternal wellness, through them. they are awesome. but like i said, we just started signing so we didn't need the workshop to learn the signs but it did inspire us to sign more broadly as a frequently used language, which feels important...like a world is opening up. i can't wait till our babes can sign to each other. or we can sign to each others kids. but that's assuming you're wanting to sign. can't wait to see you this weekend! : )