Thursday, May 15, 2014

Kevin Sable

Among the funnier things that you say on a regular basis now, you seem to think that Uncle Kevin and his dog, Sable, are one unit.  You always call out, "Kevin Sable" to address him, even if Sable isn't on his lap or nearby at the moment.
Nana Linda and Grandpa came last week to stay with us, as she just retired and wanted to help us have a garage sale this past weekend.  She was here for Mother's Day, too, so that was happy for all of us :D  We hope they can come back again soon.  During the garage sale, you stunned me by reading what I am going to count as your official first recognized words (not memorized like the books)--on an advertisement on my computer, you saw two bubbles that said "Yes" and "No", which you read very plainly.  So proud!
Your number recognition is also improving--yesterday I was teaching you about prices where it says '99' at the end and you pointed out several in ads today (correctly) :)
A really cool thing (that you INSIST on being the one to do now) is that you are able to "fix" the TV.  What I mean by this is that for some odd reason, ever since daddy installed the Chromecast on the 8th input, the display for the Uverse channels (input 7) comes up as an 'display error' problem when we turn on the TV.  The strange solution to this is to change the input to 8, leave it there long enough to be recognized as the Chromecast, and then cycle on through back to input 7.  (By the time you read this, this may be the strangest sounding tech thing ever lol...)  At any rate, as complicated as this is, you not only know how to do it, you get upset if we do it instead of letting you.
Last for this entry, we've been teaching you nursery rhymes and songs lately.  You now know "Row Your Boat", "Pattycake", about half of your ABC's, "1,2, Buckle My Shoe" and sort of "Alouette".  You also randomly sing some of the songs from the music videos we have on the playlist channel, one of which daddy dislikes (but mommy and uncle Kevin like) called "Never Win" by Fischerspooner.
Love you lots and will try to write again as soon as I can...

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Such a brain :)

I could write a lot more right now, but I need to be in bed sleeping, so this will be short.  I just wanted to say that that you are really amazing me (and daddy) with your amazing little brain--you seem to be acquiring knowledge without us even knowing where some of it comes from!  Tonight, you looked at my computer and saw a news story pic someone had posted that showed a pregnant woman's belly.  You pointed and declared, "It's a baby."  O.O  You haven't been around anyone pregnant, we have never told you this, and don't think it's been in any of those cartoons you watch lol, so have no idea how you know this!
Now, on the other hand, when you looked at my receipt from Meijer and spelled out the store name (it's in all small case), I knew this was from playing that letters game on your phone.  Love my little smart guy!  At bed time, you read a book you had not been interested in before: My First Adding Book.  It's a very simple book with things like "1+1=" on one page, then a flap with the amount in objects and the number answer under the flap.  You read this like 10 times and really seemed to be soaking it in :)