A. can sign for a number of animals now -- puppy (panting), monkey (oo-oo), elephant (trumpeting), and frog (tongue flick). She can spot them like crazy, often causing us to stop and look around to find out what she's signing at. But her favorite, by far, is puppy.
For example... JJ, A., and I stopped by the National Training Center this afternoon to get memberships (this will give us access to the pool). We had to sit at a desk and fill out paperwork while a young woman entered information into a computer that sat on a perpendicular extension of the desk. A. sat in my lap, eating Ritz, pointing at the woman's water bottle, and signing "puppy" every minute or more. JJ and I glanced around the first few times, but there was no sign of a puppy. We told her "sorry, there's no puppy," and chalked it up to her thinking about seeing Gus that morning.
But she kept signing. I thought she had to be seeing SOMETHING for her to be alerting that much. There was a TV with ads cycling through in the direction she was looking -- JJ and I posited that one of them had a puppy. But then she signed when there was a drawing of a man getting a massage. We all laughed (by this time, the membership lady was into it, too), and figured A. was just making it up.
But then, as my eyes wandered to the computer monitor... I saw that stuck to the bottom frame was a small sticker of a white dog.
"YES, there IS a puppy! Very good!"
She looked terribly pleased with herself, and didn't sign puppy again.
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