Sign Language

For the past six months Katie and I have been trying to teach Sam some simple words in sign language. We have been trying and trying to get him to say: food, water, more, please, thank you, all done, and a few others. Up until this past weekend, he used the all done sign which he mastered a few months ago for everything. However, this weekend Sam decided out of the blue to start signing. He now is proficient in everything that we had taught him for the past six months. I had assumed that it would have been a gradual learning process, but it seems that as when he started to learn to walk, a switch all of a sudden turns on, and Sam gets it. We have been enjoying communicating more with Sam. As for words that Sam can say, he has now added "dog" and a sound that we know means "where." This of course is added to his expansive vocabulary of "dad", "mom", and "ball" of which ball is definitely his favorite to say.