Abby's American Idol....

No, it's not David Cook or even David Archuleta. It's Rachel Coleman! This past week, Princess Abigail and Wendy flew to beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah so that Abby could partake in the filming of the next series of Signing Time (www.signingtime.com) -- a company that provides DVDs, CDs, books and flashcards -- all geared to teach infants, toddlers, school-aged children and even adults how to use sign language (ASL). The series is not only available across the country on public television, it has also just been nominated for an Emmy award!!!!

When Abby was 9 months of age, Tony and Wendy introduced Abby to Signing Time videos, and to nobody's surprise, Abby took to them like a fish to water. Every day since, Abby requests either a DVD, book, CD or flashcard of Signing Time and has acquired a large library of the company's merchandise. Furthermore, Wendy and Tony were thrilled to learn that Signing Time was seeking children to participate in its next video series since it gave them an opportunity to show the team at Signing Time just how effective their product! Unbelievably, Abby was selected from thousands of children to participate in the series, and Wendy and Tony were beside themselves with pride.

Upon arriving in Salt Lake, Abby was able to come face-to-face with her idol, Rachel, and three other film stars, Leah, Lucy and Alex! Posted below are some of the photos.

Rachel signs 'I love you' while Abby is completely speech and sign-less!! :)

Rachel was the most sweet she could be and held on to Abby while signing autographs.

Abby impresses Rachel with her incredibly large vocabulary of signs. We of course represented Boston with some gifts of our own for Rachel--come to find out--her husband Aaron (an incredibly warm and kind man) is a Red Sox fan too! :)

Abby enjoys a few minutes with Leah Colman (L) and Alex Brown (R) --both stars of ST.
Abby barely wants to say good-bye. Ms. Coleman was absolutely wonderful with her and told us that she hand-picked Abigail!!

Here's more on the production of Signing Time. Abby too made the ST blog! :
http://www.signingtime.com/blog/2008/05/baby-signing-time-production/

More photos and videos to come....!