Today, our child waved bye-bye. Now in the grand scheme of things, waving bye bye is no big deal really. But for our little 11 month old ... it's monumental. Well, actually for Mommy it was monumental, for him it was probably more of a, Dang, check out what I can do with my hand. Since he wasn't actually doing the traditonal wave, but more waving at himself and looking over my shoulder at Grammie waving at him. (He's waved at Jorma, but this is the first time that he did it and wasn't just mimicking Jorma and me.)
Certainly he'll have other accomplishments in his life and I'll be proud of them too, but this means he has a sudden understanding. He suddenly understands or is on the verge of understanding, that gestures mean something. And that is something cool. Now starts the sign language project. I've been showing him the food sign each time I feed him, but it's hard to break his eye contact away from the Cheerios box in my hand. But when I do, he just looks at me blankly, and then starts banging on his high chair with glee. Maybe I should teach him the sign for, "Slave Woman. Bring me FOOD!". He'd probably pick up that one pretty quick.
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