Talk talk talk- cat got your tongue?

We are about to embark on our two week family visiting journey and so we thought we would give you a heads up on what madeline is saying these days.
She has an arsenal of about 30 signs and about 20 words. I will give you an abridged list of the most popular of both and here is a link, for those of you with time on your hands, in case you want to see how she signs the words you may want to use with her.

She understands so much of what we are saying that you of course, dont need to know how to sign to tell her things, but she will tell you an awful lot with her hands and it might be fun for you to know what she is saying. so here is a link to a site with a signing, video dictionary where you choose letters and it will give you a list of words available for demo. when you click, it will show you a woman signing these words.

http://www.mybabycantalk.com/content/dictionary/dictionaryofsigns.aspx?letter=A

just thought it might be kinda fun. and yes, we are such hippies, i know!



and the one word we have NOT taught her, and hope for her not to learn, is "No". She is usually told "thats not for you", or "not right now, maybe later" or "try this instead". We have learned that for some of our friends, their 1 year olds know that two letter word all TOO well and use it more than mom and dad would like! So we are trying it out.

Anyway- here are Madeline's signs:
All done
more
milk
eat
drink
water
apple
banana
cheese
toothbrush
night night
baby
light
stars
book
bubbles (she made this one up so its not the same as the ASL sign)
bath- she kind-of does this one but understands it more than she can replicate it
up
please
thank you (this looks like blowing a kiss but there is no noise)
shoes
hat
potty
tree
airplane
pig
giraffe
bird
duck
phone



Madeline's spoken words:
hi
hat
hot
eyes
ball (pronounced dall)
mama and dada
nana
cat (kitty cat)
dog (sometimes she says woo woo instead)
shoes
toes
banana
night night (nah nah)
this
bye bye
please (peez)
noodle (pronounced doo doo which is a commentary on my cooking i suppose)
yes
trees
nose (but usually she just points to hers and makes piggy sounds or cleans it out so to speak)
she also says "tickle tickle" and a host of gibberish words

we try to say the correct pronounciation for her every time she uses baby talk for one of her words like "please" instead of "peez"

anyway. i hope you are looking forward to seeing her, if we are coming to a town near you this month. and if we are not, we hope to see you sometime soon too!


XOXO