Baby Sign Language

The other day in the kitchen Bliss was yanking on my leg. I asked her if she wanted milk to which she started to squeeze her little hand together and then rub her chest. She repeated this at least 3x while I kept repeating "can you say milllkkkkk, millllkkkk". Then it dawned on me, she was using the baby sign language to tell me she wanted milk (hand squeezing) and rubbing her chest for some unknown reason. My first thought was holy cow I have a child prodigy that somehow taught herself sign language without ever seeing it! That thought quickly disappeared and I realized she must have learned sign language at school. So the next morning at drop off I asked if they taught the kids sign language. The teacher looked at me like I was a total idiot and told me to turn around. Right behind me on a huge wall was all of the sign language signs they teach the kids, oops! That night I told Kyle about her skills we didn't even know she had and he came racing in later to tell me "Mom! she just signed to me in the kitchen that she would like more milk please" (chest rubbing apparently means please, this girl says please a lot).

Finally they get it