You Know you are addicted to Signing Time When

[ST! LeeAnn]

I have enjoyed reading the posts on A&L about the crazy things we do for ST.

Please feel free to repeat them here and include story about your children.

You know you are addicted to Signing Time when you 4 year old sees the Signing Time page and says
"Mom are you talking to Rachel AGAIN" with her hands on her hips and with as much Attitude as she possibly can.

You know you are addicted to Signing Time when the same 4 year old thinks you can call Rachel and invite her for dinner, so she can play with Leah and Lucy.

Yes, our family has been blessed to have a few dinners and ST camp and fun with the Coleman family.

[kerryann]

You know your a signing time addict when the only songs you can think of to calm/entertain your child while he is waiting are "Do You know the colors of the Rainbow", "Silly Pizza" and other songs, can't for the life of it remember the words to all the other kids songs.

[dmmetler]

Posted this on A&L, too

You know you're a signing time addict when you not only find yourself singing the 5 a day song in the produce section of the supermarket, but you look at the cart and notice your baby is signing FRUIT VEGETABLE FRUIT FRUIT.


Also, you know you're a signing time addict when you HAVE to open your daughter's birthday present of BST early-and justify it by saying "She's just a baby-she doesn't know when her birthday is anyway".

[jennebeker]

You seriously contemplate taking on a second job to afford all of the new products being released.

[Christene]

you leave your house at 9am, drive for 3 hours in the pouring rain (and not get back home till midnight) so you can go and spend the day with Alex, Leah and their families

Lexi still talks about Charlemont :)

[dmmetler]

You find yourself singing "Diaper dance" while changing your daughter's diapers.

[Kei_as_in_K]

When you slip Signing Time into every conversation with every person, and when a telemarketer calls, you start telling them about Signing Time and the benefits of signing with their kids, grandkids, nieces/nephews or neighbors' kids! This does happen a few times a month to me!

[kimberly]

When your children request pizza for dinner and are bitterly disappointed when the pizza only has cheese and pepperoni.

When you ask for the TV remote from your husband by saying, "You're turn is you're turn, and my turn is mine".

[rmorrow]

your 3 year old sees you on the computer, peeks over your shoulder, sees the ST header at the top of the forums and says, "Is that Signing Time?" with a great squeal in his voice. :)

[sandys148]

...you play the CD of ST music in the house and your sons look at the TV for the video ~ and you cave and put it in!!

[musictchr1]

...when your child is up for her 1:00 a.m. breastfeeding and she's a little fussy due to teething and not wanting to go back to sleep... and all you can hear in your head is:

"Put your fingertips together for more, more sleep;
Put your fingertips together for more, more sleep;
Put your fingertips together, your fingertips together,
Put your fingertips together for more, more sleep!"

Ah, if only it worked that way!!! :rolleyes:

[kimberly]

That's cute, Heather. And too true. LOL.

[Kei_as_in_K]

You don't just talk to yourself~ you talk to yourself in sign.

When you sing in the shower... it's all songs from Signing Time.
:D

[Kei_as_in_K]

Your husband takes your car to get the winter tires put on and comes home and says, "Do you realize that there is nothing but Signing Time (and We the Living's Satellite) in your car CD changer?" Um... yeah, I did know.

But when I started the car this morning to warm it up, the music was blasting (and I know I didn't have it up that loud the last time I used the car) the theme to Baby Signing Time.

:D

[c01dunlap]

You don't just talk to yourself~ you talk to yourself in sign... :D
Whew! I thought I was the only one!! :p

[sherry3995]

"Mom, what is that in your purse?" mom replies, "Oh, that is the Signing Time CD", your child then says "I want to take it to grandma's house to listen to it". ;) Then you as the mom reluctantly give it up to your child and go to work bummed :( out, because you do not have your ST cd.

[Kei_as_in_K]

[QUOTE=sherry3995 "I want to take it to grandma's house to listen to it". ;) Then you as the mom reluctantly give it up to your child and go to work bummed :( out, because you do not have your ST cd.[/QUOTE]

Oh, the sacrifices we make as parents.... next time you have to tuck it further into your purse!!! ;)

[dmmetler]

I was trying to calm a baby on an airplane and was singing any song I could come up with. I'd made it to "Ready to go, it's a beautiful day..."-when she started signing "GO NOW, GO NOW". I guess I should have picked something else-maybe "Wheels going 'round, or with wings, if it goes it's my favorite thing".

[amiller]

Your child will eat anything if you sign "Rachel wants you eat (fill in the blank)

Your child who says NOTHING else that people understand, can be understood saying SIGNING TIME NOW!

[fia's mom]

you post so much trying to catch the "Queen of the posts" crown. LOL! Just kidding! :D

[jensmom]

and instead of sleeping like a normal grandmother, you are reading and posting to the ST forum with ST songs playing in your head! :D

[3Beez]

....That every morning your daughter is coming into your bedroom signing/singing very loudly....as to make sure you can hear her....

"HEY, I'M AWAKE AND I'M, READY TO START MY DAY!"

[c01dunlap]

... your spouse finally joins the ST! forums specifically to suggest that you need an intervention and there needs to be a STA (Signing Time Anon) for help. All of your friends immediately agree (vigorous virtual head nodding and all), then start fighting for your "Queen of the posts" crown. :p

[3Beez]

Good one Chris!!!!!

[shanci]

... your spouse finally joins the ST! forums specifically to suggest that you need an intervention and there needs to be a STA (Signing Time Anon) for help. All of your friends immediately agree (vigorous virtual head nodding and all), then start fighting for your "Queen of the posts" crown. :p
Hilarious! You know, tell your sweet hubby that you agree - your first intervention can be scheduled online with the rest of the ST addicts. Just look for the chat room labeled "INTERVENTION" or "ST ANON" :D

[Cees]

* Several times a day, you and your children ask each other "Guess which song is stuck in my head?" and each one has a different Signing Time song, which often switches with someone else's song they've been stuck on for hours after you hear them say it

* Instead of being able to sleep at the end of an exhausting day, you are lying there with "In My Great Back Yard" running through your head

* Instead of being able to sleep at the end of an exhausting day, you can't sleep because you are so excited that the Hogle Zoo event is less than a week away!!

* As hard as you practice, you despair that you will never be able to keep up with Rachel's signing for "Leah's Farm," yet you keep trying ("Down on Leah's farm there are two brown horses, one brown, two brown, two brown horses..." :D)

*You and your kids and husband run outside gasping at a huge double rainbow after a rainstorm, and you and the kids immediately break into "Colors of the Rainbow"

* Your husband, who has expressed little or no interest in your Signing Time interest/addiction, admits he can't get a Signing Time song out of his head either

* You've lost count of the amount of people you've told about Signing Time, and find yourself telling the same ones again, only to hear with an indulgent smile, "Yes, you've told me already"

* You use your limited three months' ST exposure to try to figure out how to sign to Primary songs for Family Home Evening

* And finally...you have to tell yourself several times a week that Rachel and the others have lives and you should be grateful for 13 wonderful DVDs instead of wanting MORE!!

:D

[gran2sophie]

It is 4:00 in the morning... and instead of sleeping like a normal grandmother, you are reading and posting to the ST forum with ST songs playing in your head!

I so totally agree - the same thing has happened to me!! :)

[Ben's Mommy]

What about when your 21 month old child has to give a goodnight kiss to Rachel on the tv screen before he will come over and give you yours? Or when you have to try to stop singing "I'm Really Good at Walking" because it's conflicting with your husband singing "Do You Know the Colors of the Rainbow?" and your child is signing "Hey! I'm awake. . ."

[c01dunlap]

What about when your 21 month old child has to give a goodnight kiss to Rachel on the tv screen before he will come over and give you yours? Or when you have to try to stop singing "I'm Really Good at Walking" because it's conflicting with your husband singing "Do You Know the Colors of the Rainbow?" and your child is signing "Hey! I'm awake. . ."
That got a BIG chuckle out of me. :D

How about spending the time in the car reading posts (on an impossibly small PDA) from this thread out loud to Moni while trying to keep an eye on 'My Day' playing on the portable DVD player for 'vocab reinforcement'.

Ok, now fessing up that I'm also singing along while posting... reminds me of some other ST! fans confessions of doing the same during chatroom sessions.

Hmmm... fia's mom, you'd better post some more soon... LOL

[shawnaerin]

How many times have I been up at all hours of the night nursing my 5 month old, Sydney, and have not been able to get a ST song out of my head??! I literally have to "count sheep" or concentrate really hard on my breathing just so I can get to sleep without silently singing, "Hey! I'm awake, and I'm ready to start my day!"-- how IRONIC! :rolleyes:

[Mplus1]

This is really bad but......

You know you are addicted to ST! when you finally have some 'alone time' with your hubby and yet you are still signing the songs in your head and you nearly have to refrain from signing at that moment.

[kilikicurran]

* And finally...you have to tell yourself several times a week that Rachel and the others have lives and you should be grateful for 13 wonderful DVDs instead of wanting MORE!!

:D

Oh, this is ALL me!!! How do you sign it again???? "More, More, More???"

[kilikicurran]

As I'm trying to type this post, DS is signing "girl" at the baby Leah at the top of the screen. Getting upset as she disappears from the screen.

Someone who normally has to be in the bed at 10pm EST will stay up TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW until about 12midnight EST to chat with other ST addicts!!

And just on a slim chance of seeing Rachel herself pop in! Love when that orange text appears! :D

[fia's mom]

You know your addicted when you start taking the ST! music cds to work to listen to at your desk! Yes, that would be me.

[fia's mom]

you know you're addicted when you pass by someone at work and sign to them to ask if they're ok while speaking at the same time knowing full well that they don't know any sign language. I did that 2 days ago.

[fia's mom]

Addicted when you catch yourself practicing signs in the large mirror in the woman's bathroom at work while no one else is there. I caught myself doing that 2 days ago! :p

[Ben's Mommy]

What about if you know you CHILD should start his sentences with, "Hello, my name is Ben and I'm a Signing Time addict. . . " Ben saw his Papa's "Proud Grandpa" hat this week that has two small baby handprints on it. (We had given it to him when Ben was born almost 3 years ago (pre- ST) and Ben's hardly paid any attention to it.) Then, Thursday, he said, "Look! Two Little Hands ---JUST LIKE SIGNING TIME, PAPA!"

[fia's mom]

Sophia can't see handprints anywhere without immediately saying, "Signing Time! Look, Mommy! Signing Time!"

[windz23]

you know your addictied when your sitting outside of your children's school with your youngest son and passing the time waiting for your older kids to get out and your signing to all the other preschool kids. My youngest does the same thing when he sees hand prints. "Look mom, it's Signing Times" lol The cd's are a perminate car listening staple. And I have often been caught signing to random people while speaking with them and not realizing I'm doing it or that they have no idea what I'm doing. :p

[catybarra]

...when you hurdle over students, kick a manager off their computer, all while wildy waving your credit card around to purchase the new dvds.


...when your friends call you (while driving), fully aware I have no kids with me, and they hear the ST dvds in my car.

[JAIRATRACI]

You know your a signing time addict when the only songs you can think of to calm/entertain your child while he is waiting are "Do You know the colors of the Rainbow", "Silly Pizza" and other songs, can't for the life of it remember the words to all the other kids songs.

I agree. When my son was in day care and we were riding the bus for almost 2 hours just to get home i would sing all the songs i could remember from signing time. He will be sitting on the couch and just start singing Do you know the colors of the rainbow.

[colletteski]

HA HA! These are awesome, they all made me lol because I can TOTALLY RELATE to everything mentioned, now my turn:

You know you are a signing time addict when customers come into my office and the only DVD's we have to watch in the waiting room are Signing Time! and the only things recorded on the DVR are Signing Time! and every time we watch something at home it's Singing Time! and while bringing up this web page my daughter says (fully excited) IT'S HOPKINS MOMMY! and I am more excited to go to Signing Time Live than my 2 year old because she doesn't fully understnad that we may meet the Coleman family! :D I just cna't wait!

[KatieD0408]

When your two year-old sees you bringing in the mail, and when she sees a random package she says "SIGNING TIME TV MOMMY!!!!"

[jchrapcyn]

When your 2 yr old daughter sees a bottle of ALL detergent in the grocery store and signs "ST" because the label has the sillouette of a hand sort of like the Two Little Hands logo :)

[KatieD0408]

when your 2 year-old puts her marker caps on her finger tips and begins to sign "Rachel".

Katie :)
Mom to Signing Time! addict Mia

[rwrigley]

...going anywhere NEAR the TV room prompts the question "Signing time?"

[taylorcamel]

Some of the very few words your 20 month old says are Rachel and Sign Time (sign time is accompanied by the sign as well) and the first song you ever heard her sing was La Dee Da Dee Da Dee Der Day (baby version of Rachel's happy birthday song):D

[beenwaitingalongtime]

...when your DH emails you to ask if you're awake and your first thought is:
'Hey! I'm awake and I'm ready to start my day!' :rolleyes:

[purplewowies]

...when you dress up as Rachel for Halloween and plan to do it for the next four Halloweens, if not for the rest of your life! (that's me)

...when you miss ST!, you don't have the DVDs, and scream "NO!!!!" dramatically at the top of your lungs to the TV. (This just happened to me, but I changed the channel to Dr. Wonder's Workshop, which also uses ASL--they sign the whole show!--and all was well. But don't worry, I still like ST! better!)

...when you feel you have to tape episodes you know you aren't going to be there to see, and when the VCR eats the tape, you're devastated. (Also happened to me three days ago)

[Gina8521]

You know your 2 1/2 yr. old son is addicted to signing time when, in the middle of the night, you hear mumblings coming from the baby monitor, only to go into his room and hear him mumbling IN HIS SLEEP...... "Alex...Leah....Rachel....Hopkins......"

This is absolutely true!

He also does the "Hopkins Hop" through JC Penney.........

[Gina8521]

We also have 26 episodes of Signing Time on our DVR :rolleyes:

[oneponygirl]

I don't have to go into my kids room to hear the song, it's playing in my own head all the time!

[Mom of 7GEMS]

you can't put your 3 year old to bed without singing the "Bedtime Round" song at least twice through before your little one will go to sleep! (and then she giggles like crazy when mommy is signing all the while)

When the same child gets up every morning and before Sesame Street is even over, is asking for her Signing Time show!

When you don't sing 'adult' songs anymore, they've all been replaced by any number of ST songs in no particular order.

when your 3 year old can sign/sing the silly pizza song as fast as Rachel can!

WHen you try to type "SING", and SIGN comes out every time! :D

When you can't remember how to sing the "Traditional" Happy Birthday song anymore, it's been replaced with "La De Da, it's your Birthday! La de Da, here's your song...." :rolleyes:

Yep...we're addicted in this house too!

[ST! LeeAnn]

you can't put your 3 year old to bed without singing the "Bedtime Round" song at least twice through before your little one will go to sleep! (and then she giggles like crazy when mommy is signing all the while)

When you can't remember how to sing the "Traditional" Happy Birthday song anymore, it's been replaced with "La De Da, it's your Birthday! La de Da, here's your song...."


I have a three year old as well and I am right there with you!

When your 3 year old gets mad because you had to return "Who has the Frog" to the office after proofing it, because she wants to watch it.

[CEVmommy]

You know you're addicted to Signing Time When:

... you play the CD in the car on the way to daycare, and then keep listening to it on the way to work after dropping off your kid.

... you listen to the Signing Time music player at your desk at work and are singing along to A Beautiful Day loudly enough that your co-worker gives you funny looks and asks what on Earth you are listening to.

:) :) :)

[purplewowies]

...substituting it for computer software/hardware! (title of post=start of sentence)


You know you're addicted when you're talking about video software/hardware for your computer and you just happen to say "Signing Time!" instead of "QuickTime." (This just happened to me. I said, "Signing Time somehow got deleted off our computer" when I really meant QuickTime.)

[beenwaitingalongtime]

...when your DD breaks into song before washing up after dinner.

'Oh, woah. Look at my hands. Look at my hands. They're dirty' :rolleyes:

DH says he feels like he's living in a never-ending ST musical :p

[clover68]

I caught myself signing to my dog! :D

[MissyLovesTheRainbow]

... when you kind of turn the words around to fit the situation and they still fit in the song (our nurse sings "it's leaving time with .... and ....")

... when you're in the middle of doing something totally different and nothing to do with signing and you start humming random ST! songs to yourself or thinking them in your head.

... when you see crayons.... and you start naming them like in the song ("I have pink, pink, pinkpinkpink.....").

... when you want to create a myspace fanpage to tell the whole world about the show! :D

[Rachel]

You know you are addicted to Signing Time when your kids are watching it in the car and Rachel Coleman knocks on your car door and hugs you for watching Signing Time!

OK seriously this happened! I told Aaron a few months ago that it is my dream to pull up behind someone who was watching Signing Time in their car.

Last month we were driving along and pulled up behind a black Tahoe and I recognized my nephew Zak signing DOG on Baby Signing Time on their built in DVD player!!! I started yelling "They are watching Baby Signing Time!!! Follow them!" Aaron followed them as they pulled into the grocery store. The dad stayed in the car and mom hopped out to grab some groceries. Aaron pulled over and I jumped out and ran up to this startled mom.

Me: "Are you watching Baby Signing Time???"
Mom (confused): "Yes!?"
Me: "I'm Rachel Coleman and you totally made my day!!"
Mom: "Oh my gosh!! It's the only show my child will watch!..."

I gave her some autograph cards and temporary tattoos. I told her it has been my dream to pull up behind someone watching my shows and thanked her for making that happen.

[Sally6473]

That's awesome Rachel! :cool:

[ST! LeeAnn]

That is awesome! I am sure you made their day as well.
LeeAnn

[jenml]

You know you are addicted to Signing Time when your kids are watching it in the car and Rachel Coleman knocks on your car door and hugs you for watching Signing Time!


Do you know how many times this family must have told that story, too!!!? You probably completely made their year!!

[byuigurlluvssigningtime]

...you are a 20 year-old Single adult, yet all you watch, and listen to is Signing Time, though you have no children of your own!!!
...for your birthday, you ask for Signing Time! and are exstatic when you get it!!
...when you are cashiering at Target and while you are waiting for a customer and waiting at the front of your lane, you are singing and signing Signing Time! songs! I've gotten the strangest looks from doing that.
...sing/sign different songs and have people come up and get excited because they know the song too!
...You admit that you have a song stuck in your head and they say they do too, so when they ask what the song is, you reply by saying, oh you wouldn't know it. Then they say, oh you'd be suprised so you tell them what song it is and they just give you a funny look.
...you take a cd of Signing Time! to work with you and listen to it blasting as you clean dishes at Target!
...we do free kids cookies at Target for all children who come over to the Bakery and so when a child comes over you sign to they cookie knowing full well, they probably have no idea what you are signing!
...you are at McDonalds and you start signing to your niece and nephew everything! you cant just say it anymore, you have to sign it too!

[byuigurlluvssigningtime]

...you dream about meeting Rachel!!