Thursday, March 27, 2008

learning the ABCs

In the last several days she's started singing her version of the alphabet song. It goes something like this:

"e-k-e-k-e-k-G" (she says that one really loudly and holds it for the appropriate length (longer than the other letters, just like it's supposed to be). Then it continues with other various letters, and sometimes just little grunts. "K" always seems to make many appearances throughout the song.

I think it's hilarious. At the end she squeals and claps. And then signs "More!!"

She also has started "reading" some of her books. Her favorite one to read is "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" It goes "moun dare moun dare, uh uh uh," or something close to that. "Moun" is brown in her language, and "dare" is bear, so there you go! Moun Dare, Moun Dare.... She sometimes does the other animals by saying their sounds instead of their names. She likes me to jump in and read with her, but I just like listening to her do it....especially when she thinks no one is paying attention and she's just reading away. Sometime I need to catch her in the act on video.

At the moment she's playing Mommy to her babies--she went and got one of her own diapers and is trying to put it on her baby doll. Of course the baby is small and would take a preemie size diaper and her diapers are size 4....so you can imagine how it looks--up to the baby's chin. Now I'm laughing because she just picked up her leap frog green plastic caterpillar and is trying to put a diaper on it!!! What an imagination.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:16 PM

    Brown Bear, Brown Bear was Nicholas favorite book for ages! I still have happy memories of it.

    That is so cute the way she "reads" it to herself. I love watching my kids when they are totally immersed in something they are doing - especially when they are talking to themselves - and don't know that I'm watching!

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