We spent the last week visiting family out of town. For Baguette, routine is king–but this morning, I was reminded of why disruption can be good.
The trip was great, and I’ll write more about it later. But it was also exhausting, because we were constantly on the move, seeing new places and spending time with people who Baguette doesn’t know all that well yet.
Last night, after we got home, Baguette used more full sentences than we usually hear in a week. And they were new ones, like “Mommy, get the ball” (it had rolled under a piece of furniture) and “Mommy, I want green Play-Doh” (more typical is simply “Green Play-Doh”)
This morning, she started reciting the alphabet. This is not unusual, but here’s what was: She was also signing it. All that time this week she spent playing with the Baby Sign and Sing app we’d bought her?
She’s been teaching herself ASL.
I wish there had been a greater push to teach ASL to babies and toddlers when my kids were young. The third son spoke a lot of gibberish (and did so with a lot of emphatic gesticulations), but we never knew what he was saying.
Baguette’s daycare did teach some “infant sign language” when she was younger, but she didn’t really take to it. This time, though, it’s all her.