Signs

Abram continues to amaze us with how fast he picks things up. We decided to teach him sign language but didn't do a great job of being consistent but still continued to try things here and there. One day a couple months ago, he just started doing signs. He has signs for more, hungry/eat, hot, airplane, juice, duck, bath, and the one he is doing on Daddy-hat.
We think he developed his own sign just yesterday, he was playing in his pool and walked up to me and started blowing his lips and shivering. I asked if he was cold and he reached for the towel in my hands which he then wrapped around himself. It is so neat to be able to communicate with him. People ask us, won't the signs keep him from talking and we tell them no because for every sign he does there is a sound of some kind that goes with it. As you can see in the picture, he is doing the sign for hat on Daddy's head, but his mouth is saying "at." We hope to keep learning more and more signs and that someday Abram will teach them to Katie so we can communicate with her too.