Carrie has picked up another sign: “cheese”! This brings the total number of signs she does (mostly) correctly to four – the others are “milk”, “more” and “all done”. She also consistently makes the same hand motion (but not the correct one) for “play”.
“Cheese” is sort of problematic, though, because I spent two whole meals with her today explaining that she couldn’t have more cheese after she’d eaten quite a lot of it. I think she’s just trying out the sign and making sure it works the way it’s supposed to, but I don’t think it’s good for her to have unlimited quantities of cheese.
She does know what good cheese is, though. We were making macaroni and cheese for dinner using Velveeta, so I tried to give Carrie a little taste of the cheese Denis had cut up…she spat it back out with a look of total disgust on her face. I had asked Carrie if she wanted cheese so that Denis could see her sign it – the poor baby was expecting cheddar or monterey jack and got icky Velveeta instead!