Papa and I follow one philosophy regarding raising our babe - listen to your child.
We have not read a single parenting book and don't stick to a certain parenting theory.
We just listen to Lane - and what we know in our hearts is right for our child.
For those of you who do not yet have children, you might wonder how it is possible to listen to a child who can't communicate with words yet.
Believe me, it is easy.
However, our job just got a little easier.
We started showing Lane the sign for eat around the time he started eating solid food.
He caught on right away.
We slowly added a few signs as we saw appropriate, including the sign for bath, more and all done.
We knew he understood the sign for bath within weeks because he gets very excited each night when papa asks if he wants to go take a tubbie and shows him the sign.
Last month, we added all done. Our little guy is stubborn and gets very angry when the food disappears from his plate.
Two weeks ago, we realized he has been telling us when he is all done.
(The sign is a shake of the wrist. Lane's version looks as if he is waving good-bye.)
Yesterday, he added a new sign to his vocabulary. MORE. Apparently, he is not always all done when we say he is done.
As demonstrated this morning after he consumed an entire banana and some Cheerios.
More, he told me. More. More.
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