SO SO SO Proud!!

I am so proud and excited right now. I am ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE Maddie signed milk. I know I told most of you this before and I posted about it on BBC and my facebook group. And I now am even more sure she had done it before when I was talking about it.

Tonight she started to try to sit up so I took the baba away from her and put it on the table in front of us. Of course she keeps her eye on it. And she is flailing her arms and I can tell she is telling me that she wants the baba back. Then I say what do you want, do you want the baba?? And I do the sign. Sure enough- her left hand (same one she used before) starts doing the sign (this time the hand closes all at once, whereas before it was more in a fanning motion.) She opened and closed three times, and I of course shout out "Shes doing it, shes doing it, and I quickly give her the baba to show her I understand she did it. DJ acknowledges that she is doing the sign, but of course in his typical negative fashion says "are you sure she knows what she means?" I am like "YES, she knows what she means!!"

I also just remembered tonight that in the book I read it said that they might do the sign once and then not do it again for another few weeks. So I thought she did it about 3 weeks ago, and then kept trying to pull it out of her and she never did it again. So I started to doubt myself. But I am sure she did a beginner version of it.

It feels good to have something I worked hard at pay off. But, this just reminds me that I need to start with other signs that I have been slacking off on. I have started using, but haven't used regularly, dog, eat, more, all done and diaper change.