Words

Katie's been using sign language since she was 9 mo. old. While she did stop signing while she learned to walk, she made up for it right after. She now picks up signs very quickly and even makes up her own. (It can be a little challenging trying to find out what some of the made up ones mean.) I've been trying to compile a list of the words she can sign...but there are new ones all the time. I'm gonna try again, here we go:

Ball, bird, water, horse, fish,
more, eat, banana, turtle, peas,
sheep, dog, cat, change, diaper,
up, cracker, book, sleepy, bath,
toothbrush, hairbrush, shoes, flower, airplane,
daddy, pig, dirty, baby, bubbles,
dinosaur, bean, milk, teeth, go,
bunny, and bellybutton

She is also starting to say words, although her pronunciation is not quite perfect most of the time. Here are the words she can say:

Bubbles, dada, mama, cracker (Ka Ker), hi,
bellybutton (bell bun), yes (yep), no (nope), go, water (wah wah),
book (booo), and Bum Paste (bu pahss)
**You can thank Johnny for that last one.**

She is also great with exclamations. "oh!" "oops!" "ahh!" and "un-oh" are her very favorites, and she uses them frequently.