Babbles and Words

Today (and in the past few days) RaeRae was such as babbler--in both ASL and spoken language. She points at everything and tries to copy some signs. 
The cats are known as "dog" and so are the other animals in her books. It's an easy sign and her favorite.
Yesterday morning, I signed to her, "where is the baby?" She looked over to the other side of the room where her baby doll was and then looked back at me. I signed "come bring the baby to mama." And you know what she did? She crawled over to the baby doll, smiled, picked it up and crawled back to me while holding the baby doll in her hand! I was so impressed.
A little while later, I read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" book. She tried signing "caterpillar" with the 5-handshape while looking the book independently a little while later. 
Last night, we met with some friends and she signed "baby" over and over in her own way. It was so adorable. She has this Snow White baby doll and was giving our friends the doll and signed "baby." Then she'd take the doll away, hold it for a minute, then give it back to them. Like a "back and forth" game.
She also signed "kitty" at dinner time because the kitties were walking around nearby. 
This morning at breakfast, she signed "eat" while sitting in her high-chair while I was prepping her breakfast. 
Today while Daddy took her out to a local game store, he asked her opinion on which box of Warhammer minitatures to buy by asking "this one" or "that one." She nodded her head and said "no" at the same box and signed "yes" at the other box...consistently! DH and the store owner were impressed. But when they got home to show me what they bought, she nodded her head "no," as if to say...nope, daddy.

Then tonight at bedtime after Daddy read a bed-time story, I asked if she wanted another book or bedtime. She signed "bed" and put her head on my shoulder. So precious.


I love watching her language grow. Currently she can sign (but not all of them consistently): eat, baby, all done, Mama, bed, kitty, dog (her favorite), thank you, daddy...from the top of my head.
As for spoken words, she knows: mama, dada, uh-oh, and no.