In the past few weeks I have been working a little with sign language with my little kindergartener at work. And WOW, she's been whiny :)
I'm starting to take her whining as a good sign because it seems to mean that she's learning (reminds me of an old rusty machine starting to work, the gears creaking in protest).
She now signs "more" and "shoe".
"More" is for bubbles and cookies, and shoe is for her little game of shoe tying she loves so much. So long as I don't double knot them, she immediately pulls the strings loose and pounds her fists to sign "shoe".
Tomorrow I get to take some friends' kids to the zoo. These children will ask questions, and verbally complain... :)
I will never take for granted my future childrens' ability to communicate
