Ella's signs..

Well, Ella has 2 new signs today, cereal and dog.

Actually, they're not entirely new signs today, but as of today we now know their meaning.

Ella's first version of a sign can be pretty deformed from the proper sign, so they're tough to correlate with a meaning unless she uses them in the right context. She also doesn't tend to start using them right away in response to being taught them. They tend to lay dormant and then sometime later she'll just randomly start using the sign. It could be hours, days or weeks since we last tried to teach her that sign or she saw a video containing it. (Ella does have a good collection of signing time videos, and has learned several of her signs from them. The videos really are quite good and I highly recommend them to parents who want to teach their child sign.) .

I also realized I've never put up a "list" of all of Ella's signs, so here they are:

Bird, Book, Cereal, Cracker, Daddy, Dog, Drink, Eat, Finished, Hug, Light, Milk, More, Music, Open, Play, and Shoes.

She also has a few common gestures that I'm not sure if they're other signs, or just things that are fun. We'll see.