In this volume we teach you and your baby the signs for dog, cat, bird, horse and bear.

We hope you enjoy it!

I’m very excited to announce the creation of our own series of YouTube baby signing videos! Please enjoy the first one we have to offer, where we teach you the signs for milk, eat, more, bed and bath.

One of Willow’s favorite things to do is dance. She will dance to anything. I mean anything. Any type of music — from heavy metal to punk to swing to classical to hardcore to classic rock. Banjo music. Overhead music while we’re in the store. Someone driving by our van with the music turned up loud. And so on, and so forth. She will also dance to random noises, such as a timer going off. The girl is groovy. No doubt about it.

It was only logical, then, to show her the sign for dance. She picked it up pretty quickly — within a week she was doing her version of it back to me, and now she does it on her own, to let me know she wants music to dance to or that she is indeed dancing. Her dancing is a big hit around here and wildly entertaining and cute.

Tonight I decided to try to capture her signing dance (which, incidentally, looks like the sign for “baby” right now). The first video she wasn’t too interested in signing, but in the second one she nails it!

Enjoy!

My newest baby, Willow, finally made her first sign! I have been signing to her since she was 4 months old, pretty much exclusively signing “milk” to her since my other two signing babies began with “milk.” Turns out that was not motivating enough!

I found a short video of Lauren’s first sign – milk – at 7 months of age.