These captivated faces are brought to you by a baby sign language video that the girls are a little obsessed with. If you let them, they will crawl up the footstool in front of the television until their noses are about 2 inches from the screen and stare at Marlee Matlin and the cartoon characters do the signs for milk (squeeze your fist together, like you were working an udder), baby (rock your arms back and forth), mommy (open your hand and tap your thumb against the side of your chin), daddy (same open hand, tapping your thumb against the side of your forehead) and several others. They imitate a lot of the signs while watching the video and are starting to transfer more of them to real-life situations. Of course, it occurs to me that now would be a good time to tell you that Lillian gets at least 80% credit for saying "Mama", "Daddy", and "Baby" as actual words.
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