Baby Signing Time

When Ruby was born I read that some children with Down syndrome have hearing disabilities.I wanted Ruby to be able to communicate with me and me with her no matter what.Someone told me about Signing Time by Rachel Coleman.I ended up buying the first two volumes of  Baby Signing Time and started setting Ruby in front of the TV in her infant seat when she was just a few months old.The DVD's are very enjoyable and have catchy songs and cute children that demonstrate the signs.After just a few days of watching the DVD's Ruby's siblings and I were learning the signs.We started using the signs we had learned with Ruby .

Now, Ruby is 2 years old and can sign to me that she wants to watch Baby Signing Time.Ruby knows all of the signs on both DVDs and can say many of them also.
Ruby can sign  and let me know when she is hungry and when she is full.She signs please and thank you and just this week has started saying "thank you" when she hands us something.She signs and says "sleepy" when she is tired and can sign and say "stop" when she doesn't like something.A couple of weeks ago Ruby hurt herself while she was playing and looked up at me with a pouty sad face and started signing sorry.She was  sorry she had hurt herself.
Learning signs has helped Ruby with her verbal skills.Usually when Ruby learns a sign she learns to say the word that goes with it.
Signing Time is well worth the money and is an excellent way for all children to learn sign language.

Dolls,Signs, Rockers and Beds

Ruby adores her baby dolls.She can clearly say "Baby" and has also learned the sign for baby.She has many board books with babies in them and she turns the pages and points at the pictures and says,"Baby" and then signs baby.

Ruby has been sick with a cold and I have been having to wipe her nose quite often.Yesterday she sat playing with one of her baby dolls and picked up the cloth that I had been using to keep her face clean and she wiped her doll's nose.So sweet!

I have been so happy to see Ruby using the signs she is learning.She signs for her milk now instead of crying for it.She looks at me and signs 'Milk 'and then holds her arm out towards the kitchen and signs 'Milk'again.She has even added to her sign for 'Bubbles' by touching her lips with her fingers and then holding her hand away from her face and making the sign for 'Bubbles'.

I am thinking about getting Ruby a little rocking chair because she really liked a rocking chair that her Auntie has at her house.I found this one that I think might be perfect because Ruby would also be able to put her baby doll next to her ,I found it here.I also like this precious rocking horse.

After I looked at rockers I looked at the kids beds this cute Dora bed caught my 6 year old daughter's eye.She loves anything with Dora on it.

I always wanted a canopy bed when I was a little girl and thought some of these were gorgeous.

New things

Ruby is starting to really understand and use her sign language.She enjoys bubbles and I usually sit her in the highchair and blow them for her,yesterday I sat her in the highchair to feed her and she saw the bubbles on the counter and started signing for bubbles.I told her ,"No, lets eat first," and she got mad and signed bubbles again ,so needless to say, we played bubbles before she ate.She has been watching her 'Baby Signing Time' videos everyday and learned the sign for 'all done.'This morning I was giving her a bottle of milk and she started getting full and she signed all done.I'm so excited to see her progress in this area because I was a little discouraged about it last month.It seems like she is having a burst of learning new things right now.