More!

It is 9:15AM on 9/05/2013 ...and... Grayson signed MORE!

I cannot express to you my happiness over this! I am ecstatic!

Let me explain a little.....

When Grayson was around a year old he was able to sign "More" and "Want" and he also would give High-Fives and Clap when prompted...so we knew he knew what they meant.... but then those little things started to drift away...

I thought I saw a glimpse of it again last year with clapping and giving a high-five but sure enough, about a week into it, he stopped again... this has always spiked my curiosity on wether it is a form of regression or if it is him being bored with his new skill as I have him do the new skills over and over again ...but always with positive reinforcement... and then about a week or two weeks after he gains the new skill (or gains a former skill back) it dwindles away again....so I never know if perhaps I have made too big of a deal over the new skill to the point where he just doesn't want to do it anymore...ever.. or if it is in fact a form of regression :-\

Anyway.... I haven't seen "More" for awhile...a long while -until today!

Grayson had been playing with his iPad and then walked away from it, the noise of the iPad went off (as it does that if it is not being played with for a minute or two) and he turned around and you could tell he was looking for it and he put his hands together in a fist form and did "More"! I was a little shocked and excited at the same time and I wanted to test this possible "More" to see if he really was picking the skill back up again...so I let him play with the iPad for a minute and then I took it away again and hid it behind my back and I signed "More?" to him and sure enough, he signed "More" right back!

I did this back and forth a few more times within that little time frame and then I did it again just a few minutes for starting to type up this blog entry... and each time... he signed for "More!"

Now sometimes it is closed fists and other times it is open palms almost like clapping... so this got me and my Mom wondering if maaaaaaybe when he is randomly running around the house seeming to be clapping... if he is really trying to say he wants "more" of something..... ? His more has always looked like a clap with the occasional closed fists way of doing it...so who knows..... maybe that is why when in the bathtub when he splashes he will clap after each slash and waits for me to splash back because he wants me to splash more and then he will splash more because other times when I try to clap about other things that are exciting like when he does a puzzle he just gives me a funny look.... probably because clapping just might mean "more" to him so when he see's me clap after he finishes a puzzle he is thinking, "no mom i do not want to do anoooooother puzzle" :p

Are you still with me? I know I just talked in a million circles but I am excited and trying to explain the past at the same time. My apologies.

But today, and for however long he decides, we have gained back the skill of signing "More"!

I am going to try to be pretty easy going with it and not overbear him with doing the sign over and over and see if that helps him to retain it longer.

Verrrry curious this little one is...


Pretty proud Mama right now!