27 weeks 4 days old

We started using ASL (American Sign Language) with Von Bebe months ago.  This is because babies understand language much earlier than they are able to use it.  Nothing fancy, just words like: milk, up, done, sleep, mama, dada, etc. And THIS is a great site to learn these words and many many others. 

   We suspect that she has started attempting to reciprocate this week.  She holds her arms straight out but one of her hands is in a fist and the other is not.  We're not sure if she's trying to give the sign for "milk" or she just wants attention.  It might be a little too early, but being the parents we are it's hard not to read into every little thing she does.

   But IF she is able to understand and not communicate, I can certainly imagine how frustrating it could be.  Check this out:

Here, VB starts putting her arms up like I mentioned.  After a while of just holding her she makes this frustrated vibrating lips sound that is quite humorous.  And our laughing only serves to frustrate her further.  It's a horrible feedback loop.  She gets more frustrated making more motorboat noises with her lips and we laugh that much harder.

   I suspect that if she COULD talk, she might call me an ass...