sign of the times.

so this morning, i had charis in her high chair and was feeding her some rice cereal mixed with pears... (mixing with pears is the only way she'll eat it) so she ate a couple bites, then started kind of yelling at me and wouldn't eat any more... i was just kind of looking at her, trying to figure out what she wanted, when i looked at her hands, stretched out at her sides. they were squeezing into fists and releasing repeatedly...

now, this is the ASL sign for "milk"...but even though we've been signing with her for a couple months (and not always consistently), i had never seen her doing anything resembling signing back at me...in fact, i was starting to wonder if i would even recognize when she signed back to me.

so this morning, she's doing the fist thing, and it occurs to me, "maybe she's asking for milk?" so i sign back to her and say "charis, do you want some milk?" she immediately stopped being mad, smiled, and flapped her arms in excitement.

holy cow, the kid was telling me she wanted milk!!!

i can't wait for the next sign she chooses to use!