Too busy? The holidays are a great time to give your baby extra attention, and here’s how.  When family is around and they want to play and hold your baby, teach them the signs you have been working on.  Your relatives will love learning the new signs and then they can work with your baby too.  Even younger kids who play with your baby can pick up a new sign quickly and sign it for you. It makes a great time with family and really enhances your holiday experience with your extended family.  Just for fun try the signs for Thanksgiving or Christmas!

Thanksgiving:  with two flat hands at chin sign thank you and then extend your flat hands out one more time as if to give.

Christmas: left arm bent in front of your body, palm down, right hand with “C” handshape starting at left arm and then arcing up from left arm to end with right arm bent in front, palm left and hand in “C” handshape.

Deborah Parrish