Update on Milly and Aiden

Well, Milly is 11months now and has taken to baby sign pretty well. She now has a handful of signs that she uses to comunicate with us. Aiden(3) has been a wonderful teacher and as Milly just adores anything that her brother shows her, this has really helped her learning. It is truly amazing to experience it first hand with your own child! Daddy is even getting into it once he witnessed those first few successes!

Thought you might enjoy seeing them in action....

Here is a snippet of Milly telling us she has 'finished' her dinner...



And Aiden teaching Milly the sign for 'milk'...

I hope your signing is going well....

Amanda

Signing with Milly...

Well, I have begun signing with my 6month old, Milly!





Aiden(my 3 year old) has been studying the signs to help me teach Milly baby sign...



Aiden and I have been showing Milly the sign for 'milk' for a few weeks now...

She is definately now recognising the sign as she goes bananas when we do it! This was a good one to start with with her as she LOVES her milk!

Now we just keep persevering and wait for her to sign back....will keep you informed...

Amanda

Harri's first Sign!

Wow, how exciting to see my six and a half month old son Harri signing! I started doing a few signs with him from about four months. At first I found it hard to keep his attention so I backed off for a while, lately though he has been watching our every move and really showing lots of interest in everything around him so I started again with just a few signs. Things have been pretty hectic at our place in the past month, packing up our house in Sydney and moving to Canberra, which made it hard to be really consistant with it, so I was quite suprised to see Harri signing back "Mummy" after showing him maybe half a dozen times. We got so excited and gave him so much praise for being so clever, he was very proud of himself!
Harri's big sister Maija is almost 3 and is very keen to teach him to sign, she loves to show him different signs and play games with our Signing Stars flashcards with him. We didn't start signing with Maija until she was over 1 so its very exciting to be signing this early with Harri. Now that we are set up in our new house I will put up our "Signs that Stick" to help Daddy(Henrik) can get involved too.
Will update with news on our signing progress soon,

Sonya

Ava & Olivia

Time has flown! Ava will be three soon and Olivia is walking talking some what and her signing is going great guns!
Ava has learnt a lot more signs lately and is very keen to learn more.
The signing class I organised with Tiny Hands Talk was really good, the kids loved it. Unfortunately Ava was sick and did not get to go. Olivia liked it though. There was fun for all.
Olivia’s favourite sign at the moment is ‘dog’ everything is dog! She has also started saying ‘mummy’ Finally!!!!! ‘Dad’ not so much, which is weird because ‘dad’ is usually the one they say first, but I don’t mind at all.
Olivia’s BIG news is that she has learnt a new sign, ‘bath’. Although it does not look like the Auslan way, it is Olivia’s way.
Olivia also has six teeth now and still chases Ava around, but now she can do it a little faster. They also ‘play’ together and see who can annoy each other first, and then it ends up who can hit each other the hardest!!!!.....then the tears come.

I have also put our signing poster in our kitchen which i think has helped them alot because they see the signs all the time. Sometimes Ava will sit down with me and we go through all the signs and 'play find the sign'. She likes this as much as playing 'hide and seek'!!

Our chickens are also growing up. They are all fully grown…but no eggs yet!...i keep telling myself they will earn there keep soon. The girls love playing with them. When Ava and Olivia wake up in the morning and come into the kitchen the first thing they look for are the chickens. Olivia signs ‘bird’ and points at them with a big smile on her face. It is so cute!

Why is it that when you try and get them to show other people the signs that they know, they suddenly don’t know them anymore…why is that?

I would like to thank the people who have seen and are using Signing Stars products. We like hearing the nice feedback and are very proud of our products.

Happy signing!!
Kylie

Ava, Olivia and Maija and the iphone

These are some pictures of the girls playing with our iphone app. All three of them are very clever at it!!!!

Progress!!

It has been a while since my last update and alot has happened since then. Olivia has had her 1st birthday. I cannot believe she is one already where has the time gone? She is also walking. Chasing after her big sister! Her baby signing is also going really well, she now can sign 'finished','mummy' and 'daddy'. We are having a baby signing class on Friday with Judy from 'Tiny Hands Talk'i am looking forward to that because both my girls love music! I will let you know how they go.
Ava, Olivia and Maija were all playing with our iphone app the other day and they absolutely loved it. They all knew how to slide the screen to change the flash card and do the sign!!

Fine Motor Development Milestones

Hi Kylie
I thought this article on fine motor development might be of interest. Baby signing is a great way to develop fine motor skills. Just click on the heading to follow the link.
I cant wait to start signing with Harri!
Son