If you want to continue signing with your growing children, here are a few tips I’ve picked up along the way.

• Recognize that it’s normal to drop signs. If your child stops using a sign, don’t get upset.
• Keep signing yourself. If your child sees that you aren’t signing, they aren’t motivated to keep signing, too. When you continue to use signs that you already know, they will see that it’s a normal way of communication for your family.
• Learn new signs. Absolutely keep using the same signs that you have been using, but you will also need to continue learning new signs. As you realized when your child began signing, it’s easy for both you and your child to learn new signs. That doesn’t have to stop, and it shouldn’t.
• Consider taking a class. If you’re truly interested in learning the entirely of American Sign Language and hope your child can use it as a second language, you might want to take a class. Using ASL signs with your baby is a good first step, but ASL grammar is quite different from spoken English. A class will help you learn, and then master, ASL as a whole.
• Interact with your local deaf community. You likely have a wealth of resources available to you in your own community that you may have not been aware existed. Interacting with deaf folks can really improve not only your vocabulary and grammar, but it can be an amazing opportunity for your child to meet other children who use sign language.