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Recently Josh had the SciFi channel on Foxtel. I can't remember now
what it was we were watching on the SciFi channel, but Tao looked at it,
then looked at us and said quite confidently "Dat's sky fi."
Sky fi.
Most
of the words he's looked at to date have a hard "c" sound and neither
of us have ever referred to it with that particular pronounciation. I
have occasionally called it "sci fee" as it's not "science fike-shun".
He
also correctly identified the number "3" when we went out for lunch and
got given one of those number things after you order but that's
starting to become more of a regular occurrence, as is identifying
individual letters.
What are we doing? Reading books and signs to him. Nothing more.
Also,
for both kids, when walking through shops and they want to stop on a
ride or something, I will usually let them have to the count of 10 and
then they get off. Ta understands how it works and is very
cooperative. The first few times with Ru predictably resulted in tears
and tantrums as she didn't want to get off whatever it was she was
playing with usually.
The same day that Tao read out the number
"3" accurately when we went out for lunch, I had to take Ruan to the
toilet and upon finding it too late, changed her nappy. While I was
packing up, she jumped into the "big red car" that was in the change
room. I was about to automatically snatch her out and walk out when
remembering my manners, I said, "Count of 5 then we gotta go, okay Ru?"
Then counted slowly to five while she played, and lo and behold, after
five, she was quite ready to leave.
She's 1.
They're currently "reading" a Flip the Flap Phonics book together. Awww.