Communications 101

It's so fun watching/listening to Miles learn to communicate. He's got an impressive vocabulary for an almost 10 month old, granted most of his words are "words" that only Dan and I can understand. He can say mama, dada, tree, fish, flag, eat, drink, up, backpack, light, and bye. But what's been really cool is watching him sign. Yes, he still only uses one sign... want, but on Sunday he used it very clearly in combination with other body signals. We were at Parley and Bona's for dinner. The "big kids" were done eating and were headed outside to accomplish whatever mischief they had planned. Miles loves being outside and wanted to go too. To communicate this, he did the following. First, I was holding Miles and he knew he had a better chance of getting what he wanted if he was with Dan; so he lunged from me to Dan. Then he looked at the door, verbally indicated what he wanted while stretching his arm towards the door and signing "want", meaning "want outside". He got what he wanted and the look on his face indicated triumphant communication!