Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! Love, BeeBo and Lorraine

Lorraine and I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, and we have some signs to share!

This is a video playlist of signs for Christmas - tree, hat, love, light, gift., please and thank you. We also had a sign request for BOW so click on the word and you can see the sign.

Thanksgiving Sign Requests

Here's some signs that were requested for talking about family:

FAMILY, GRANDMA, GRANPA, AUNT, UNCLE, COUSIN(female). and COUSIN(male).

Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family!

Sign Request - FARM

We had a sign request for FARM at Parent Workshop yesterday evening. Hold your hand like you are showing the number five. Place your thumb against the side of your chin and drag your thumb across your chin with your hand at right angles to your chin.

Follow this link to see a video of this sign on ASL-Pro. http://www.aslpro.com/main/f/farm.swf

Sign Request - PACIFIER

The sign for BINKY or PACIFIER was requested today. Here's a little video on how to sign PACIFIER. You put your thumb and index finger up to mouth like you are holding a pacifier and then you make a sucking motion like you are sucking on the pacifier.

Sign Requests - Avocado and Mango

Sign requests for today at Baby Play and Sign were for avacado and mango. Unfortunately, both of these are fingerspelled. If you want to make up an easy sign for your baby, go ahead and do so. What you could try is using the first letter of the fruit rotated against your cheek as in the manner of the sign for FRUIT . The sign for fruit is a "f" hand shape rotated against the side of your chin, so it would be an A for avocado, and an M for mango. Click on letters/words to see the signs. If something else makes more sense for your particular situation, for example if you cut up avacados a certain way, then you can use that in the sign. I slice an avacado lengthwise, and then twist the two halves to get them apart, so what I would use for my sign would be a twisting motion with my two A hands against each other, just like what I do with the avocado. Remember, our goal is communication, and little hands are going to have a really hard time fingerspelling these words!

Learn Sign for TOAST

Today at Baby Play and Sign we talked about what we had for breakfast and we had a sign request for TOAST, a very useful sign for us to know! Use your nondominant hand as the piece of bread and make the sign for "V" with your dominant hand representing prongs of the fork. Tap the "prongs" on the front then the back of the "bread" like you are toasting the bread on a fork over the fire.

Learn Sign for Vanilla

We had a sign request for VANILLA at Baby Play and Sign yesterday. It is like the sign for chocolate, but you circle a V over the back of your nondominant hand instead of a C. Click on the word below to see the sign!

VANILLA

Learn Sign for Yogurt

Hi! This sign was requested at last week's Baby Play and Sign, so here it is so we can all learn it! Get your Y sign ready and grab some yogurt! Yum!