Signing Explosion!

I had heard about this signing explosion that happens at some point when you teach your baby sign language from early on. We started signing with Keegan around 4 months old. It took a while for him to ever respond. He started recognizing the sign for milk first by getting excited when I asked him if he wanted milk (and signed milk). Around 9 months he started signing "all done". That was it for a while. Over the past month (the past week or two especially) he has just taken off. This concept of teaching babies sign language seemed a little crazy to me at first but it is incredible to see him sign and to know that we can communicate somewhat. He has learned some from me and what I have learned at a baby sign language class we took, he learned some from his baby sign language DVD called Baby Signing Time (yes & please) and some from a baby sign language book I bought at a yard sale! Yes, he taught himself light, sleep and phone from his book. 

Now at almost 15 months old, he can sign the following words. Some more consistently than others, but he has signed all of these at some point!

1. All Done
2. Please
3. Yes
4. Light
5. Dog
6. Phone
7. Sleep
8. Truck
9. More
10. Bread
11. Eat
12. Water
13. Cheese (i think)
14. Music (but not the right ASL sign, he has his own sign...he nods his head to the beat of music if he wants music....its what you call a "home sign".)
15. Hot (not the ASL sign, he blows if something is hot)

Here are some I got on video: