Milking the Cow

They’re teaching Troy sign language at the daycare. It’s supposed to help the babies communicate when they still can’t speak. The other day, my wife was giving Troy a bath, and as she was drying him off, he lifted his hand and was opening and closing it in a grasping motion. This is the sign for milk, like milking a cow. She immediately understood, and she replied, “Ok.” He blinked at her and put his hand down. My wife was so excited that they’d had their first “conversation,” and that each had seemed to understand the other one. I guess they had a breakthrough.