Today for the first time ever Ingrid “told” me that she was tired by some other means than whining or crying (which is a rather generic signal and makes it hard to tell tiredness from other problems). Well, she started by crying, but when I picked her up she immediately started sucking on her thumb, which she otherwise never does when she is awake. I put her down in the bed and she was asleep 5 minutes later.

She did it at a time when she wouldn’t normally be tired so if she hadn’t given me such a clear signal, it would probably have taken me a long while to figure out what was wrong. In fact I probably wouldn’t have figured it out at all, because it was so far from her normal naptime, and she would have been all cranky for the next hour.

I guess you could say she used sign language. Yay for communication!