For quite a while we've been trying to do baby sign language when dealing with Alice. Simple things like: up, finished, milk, bath, change diaper, mommy, daddy, and "divert more power to the starboard thrusters". You know, the usual. At first we were quite good at it. We'd sign like talking was going out of style. Nothing back from her. Eventually she started to recognize the signs and take action. Like for "up", she'd lift her arms to make it easier to pick her up. But she didn't sign back to us.
Until this week.
At breakfast she signed "finished". We thought that it might have been a fluke. But since then she's been making the sign when she's done eating in her highchair. It's pretty exciting to be able to not have to interpret just grunts, waving of arms, and different cries in some weird version of charades. Hopefully she'll pick up more signs as we go. Clear communication is always nice because it'll take the guesswork out of it, which will reduce everyone's stress.
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