Sign Language

Dylan has always had a very large attention span...and loves to watch videos. We started him off around 3 months old with Baby Einstein Videos and he absolutely loved them...and still does. He has learned a variety of things from those videos. Some examples would be different animals, transportation(planes,trains, and automobiles) and the most impressive. Sign language. Bringing that up I have to tell you the story when I learned he knew sign language. He was probably around 1yrs old. One day I asked Dylan if he could say kitchen, while we were watching his video. He looked at me and did this thing with his hand. I looked up at the TV and a bowl was on the screen, then the woman on the screen made the exactly sign Dylan just did...which obviously was bowl. The next picture was a chair. Dylan proceeded to do the sign for chair, table, and refrigerator. I couldn't believe it. The funny thing is, is the sign for refrigerator Dylan has been doing to Heath and I all the time when we are going to get him juice or milk and we thought he was just really excited. You would have to know the sign to understand our reasoning. I guess he really showed me. HA-HA! From this day forward every time Dylan makes hand gestures at Heath or I, Heath is always asking me what that means. Which I don't have a clue. I did do a crash course(which means I watched all the signing videos) but I guess he is way smarter than me because I can't remember them :) I quiz Dylan with this all the time. I ask him how do you say road, or my neighborhood, or sidewalk. And he does them all for me. He gets so proud of himself. He amazes me everyday.