Lil'S Language at 19mo

New "Words"

bbbbb with his lips for "car"/"truck"
ba-ba-bbbbbb for "balloon" (Thanks awesome Kroger Balloon Lady for the free Halloween balloons! My kid is now saying another word!)
mmm/ma for "more"
heh for "hi" (Around last week he started waving at nearly everyone he'd see, and at least a few days ago he started trying to say "hi" too. Cute!)

Lil'S - new signs


down (point downward; only rarely asks to get down by pointing down lately, did more when 18mo--forgot to include in earlier post, but he understands you. If you're lucky he'll do it--much more likely to do it if you say something like, "Yes Sam sit down, yes Sam eat"--if you sit, you can eat; but if you don't sit, you don't get to eat! We know he's done eating when he makes a game out of this by continually standing in his chair.)


thank you (yeah! he's just started signing this! open hand moves to and away from chin)


rain (both hands raised and lowered, often wiggling fingers; this is a request for the Primary song "Rain is Falling"; we often sing this during mealtimes when we're bored but not done eating yet)
where (typical gesture with hands palm up at shoulder level, although it's not ASL. He'll do it too sometimes, shaking his hands back and forth. He was probably signing this last month too.)


come! (this is his own sign; sweeps a hand in front of him and then over his opposite waist/shoulder; also may hold out a hand and open and close the fist)


bird (thumb and forefinger make a bird's opening & closing beak in front of the mouth; he'll do it usually reaching in the direction of the bird)


still teaching (when I think of it!):
water
apple
pain
butter


should teach him:
shoes
sock
draw/color
trade
bread
cracker
dance
baby
doll
open
close
bike
book
fork
boat
put away


Here's the source we've used for ASL signs. There may be some down the road that we'll need to simplify, but we'll do that as we come to it.