Thursday, May 13, 2004

 

Birgen is very busy. She's walking, playing and starting to get into things that are supposed to be off limits. Although she's not talking yet, she's become very proficient with sign language.* She currently has a vocabulary of about 15 or words, with MORE, PLEASE, MILK, FOOD, ALL DONE, HELP and TELEPHONE being the most frequently used. Others include THANK YOU, BRUSH MY TEETH, DIAPER CHANGE, DOG, AGAIN and UP.


In this picture, I have just dipped her feet into the cold water...she's giving the "MORE" sign.

*When Birgen was about 6 months old, we began introducing ASL (american sign language) to her, using the Joseph Garcia book as our main guide. Meredith gets most of the credit because of the sheer number of hours, days and weeks that she put into this before Birgen got the hang of it (around 10 months).

posted by tom 8:45 PM