Signing

Simeon’s baby sign vocabulary is growing.  So is his spoken vocabulary.  He now says Mama, Dada, ball, and pat-pat-pat.  He signs nurse, please, ball, dog, all done, music, potty (but only when someone else is going), clap-clap-clap, bye-bye, duck (or bird), yummy, and probably some others that I’m forgetting. 

Sometimes his signing is humorous.  For instance, the other day I saw him crawl across the floor, pick something small up, put it in his mouth, look across at me and sign, “Yummy!” very vigorously.  When I fished it out of his mouth, I discovered it was a small piece of plastic.  Yummy, indeed. 

We went to the zoo the other day.  We saw some ducks.  Simeon signed dog over and over about the ducks.  He signed duck about the hippos – or was it something else?  Not about a duck, though.  He signed dog about the African wild dogs, though, so that’s good. 

When we went blackberry picking, it was at a park that has a farm in it, so naturally we went to see the animals.  He signed dog about the chickens.  He really, really liked them. 

I was sitting with Sim on the swing on the porch, swinging and watching the girls play.  We saw some people walking by, and Sim signed dog.  I realized that often people walking by have dogs with them, so I sign “dog”…which Sim now uses for anyone walking by.