Annie Teaching Food Signs


Bread, Apple, Orange, Milk, Cracker, Cereal, Cookie, Banana, Carrot, Eat, Cheese, Ice Cream

Brandon cracks me up.  I laugh at my son everyday, I think he’s one of the funniest people I know.  I’m going to start putting more videos of him on so that you can enjoy him like I do.

Sign language has helped me understand Brandon a lot more.  He talks a lot, but sometimes he’s a little hard to understand.  When he first started talking if I couldn’t understand what he was saying, I would just ask him to sign it to me.  He was a lot less frustrated because I could actually understand what he was trying to say since he knew how to sign it to me.  Sign language helps different kids in different ways, but from personal experience it has definitely helped both of my kids in the areas they needed most.

Andrea Ploehn, co-founder www.signing4baby.com

Here’s Annie and Brandon with the van ghost.

Ben has been such a fun baby.  He’s also been extremely patient… which is good because his siblings love to play with him.  Being a mom is awesome!

Here is my cute 4 year old Annie teaching sign language.

Here are my beautiful older children teaching my 11 week old sign language. It’s so fun to get the whole family involved.

Andrea Burton Ploehn

Here is little Ben (really should be Big Ben as he is really packing it on) at 7 weeks. Although he isn’t quite ready to begin signing, he is developing well and is giving some of the key indicators that will let me know he is ready: he is starting to make and hold eye contact and he is starting to smile voluntarily.

That’s right! I am starting a documentary as I prepare for my son’s arrival. I will take you through the process of teaching an infant and (as he grows) a toddler to use sign language to communicate before they are able to speak!