A Tiny Talker at heart...

So I started a new kiddy class today.  The Little Lady and I have hung up the Tiny Talk hat and have put on the Tumble Tots t-shirt…quite literally you get your own t-shirt…well the Lady does anyway. 

Good Bye Tiny Talk classes :(

I was feeling fine about the change at the end of last term.  We had our final class, handed over a thank you card to the lovely Claire whose class we've been going to since April and said our good byes.  But today as I went to a different class I realised I’m actually really sad about leaving Tiny Talk behind. We have absolutely loved Tiny Talk!  It’s been brilliant to learn the sign language and all the songs and I’ll never forget when the Lady did her first sign.  

At the end of last term she got her final certificate to say she was using 45 plus signs by 17 months and that she was an extra-ordinary communicator!  And I really think she is.  We have conversations about what we see when we’re out for a walk, she tells me she can see buses, Lorries and dogs.  She can put two signs together now, she does the sign for “where” and then “Daddy?”.  She asks where Daddy is all the time (even if he’s just gone upstairs)!  It’s SO cute.

The signing is helping us get used to the idea of potty training as the Lady can tell us that she’s doing a little something special for us in her nappy… now we just need to get her to do it on the potty! But the point is she knows what she’s doing, she signs for potty and  she signs for wipes…even though it’s occasionally on the late side. She understands so much of her world and  it’s all because of Tiny Talk.

I was really grateful the other day when I hadn't noticed the oven clock alarm sounding to tell me my cakes were ready and the Little Lady waddled over to me and signed “I hear a noise!” and so off I went to rescue our cakes. What a star!

Although last week it made me a little bit sad as her nursery worker told me she signs for Mummy a lot when she’s at nursery and the old mother’s guilt crept in…

Hello Tumble Tots!

But today we braved it to Tumble Tots. And we had a great time.  The Lady soon got the hang of the circuits and was crawling through tunnels, doing forward rolls, sliding down slides and jumping on mini-trampolines.  At the end of the session there’s a challenge on one of the apparatus and if you complete it you get a star stamp on your hand.  The Little Lady completed it three times and got three stamps!

And after each stamp she looked at the instructor and signed 

“thank you”. 

We may not have been at Tiny Talk today… 

but we were there in spirit!