Minding Manners

We've been signing with Joseph for about 7 or 8 months now. He's made the "milk" sign like 3 times. That's it. He definitely understands "milk", "drink", "eat", and I think he gets "more" but he refuses to use any of them, preferring instead to whine until I discern which whine he's doing. I guess he does have a language of sorts. Ha!

However, the other day I implemented "please" and he will imitate it every time I do it when he wants something. He still won't do the sign in front of it (milk, drink, etc) but he'll sign please right away.

The child knows how to get what he wants!