We’ve been signing at Ruby since a very early age.\u00a0 Our vocabulary isn’t big, but Ruby is starting to pick them up more quickly.\u00a0 Like her words, though, she tends to latch onto a favorite sign and then use it for everything.<\/p>\n
Ruby’s verbal vocabulary right now is limited to “down” and “this”.\u00a0 She has said other words in the past (“up”, “mama”, “papa”, “gargoyle”) but for now, those two words are just about all she uses.<\/p>\n
Similarly, her favorite sign right now is “more”.\u00a0 She uses it to indicate that she wants to eat, which apparently is all the time.\u00a0 She also knows how to sign “all done”, “bedtime”, and she can nod in agreement.<\/p>\n
“All done” and “more” can sometimes be confusing for her.\u00a0 When she’s eating I’ll ask if she’s all done and she’ll sign it.\u00a0 Then I’ll ask if she wants more and she’ll sign that<\/em>.\u00a0 Then I’ll ask if she wants down and she’ll say, “Dooooooowwwww…”.\u00a0 Then we’ll start over from the top.\u00a0 Sometimes, I’ll see her run through a bunch of her signs — “milk”, “more”, “all done” — as if she’s not quite sure what she’s trying to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve been signing at Ruby since a very early age.\u00a0 Our vocabulary isn’t big, but Ruby is starting to pick them up more quickly.\u00a0 Like her words, though, she tends to latch onto a favorite sign and then use it for everything. Ruby’s verbal vocabulary right now is limited to “down” and “this”.\u00a0 She has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milestones","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}