louder than words

While driving home today, I was passing back to Jalen some dried banana chips to munch on. Jalen has a tendency to stuff his mouth as quickly and as full as possible. For fear that he'll choke on his food, it's necessary for us to give him his snacks at a slow pace. That's why Jalen started to use his baby sign language on me. He kept signing "more" to me because I just wasn't giving him his chips fast enough. Approaching this whole baby sign thing in a lackadaisical manner, I am quite astonished with Jalen's ability to learn this. With all credit given to Eumi, it actually took very little effort to teach this one sign. Although, for now, I think he associates the sign as a general term for food, milk included. It's still a huge step toward his ability to communicate. When he woke up yesterday morning, I was changing him on his changing pad and he was signaling his "more" sign with me. It was obvious that he was telling me that he wanted his milk. It was a touching moment because it was the first time that he's ever said anything to me in the morning.