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
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