the world of ABCs, 123s, shapes, words and colors

hi there! i'm still here.. did you notice that i i've pretzeled this blog up. what can you say about the new look?

anyway, it's been a while since i last updated everyone on this blog... but i'm sure you've been getting some stories 'bout me from my mom through either her blog or circle of mom, or most likely from her short blabs on plurk, twitter or facebook (that's been easier for her so her updates, mostly about me, can be read from any of these sites). perhaps, you've also seen some new pics of me from flickr (where we store and back-up all our pics and vids) or multiply (where she cross posts her flickr pics to) or twitpic (yep, now she does share some pics to twitpic.. again, easier since they're just a few liners). we're everywhere in the www! but i'm sorry we just have to keep most of these sites private and viewable by family and friends only.


the alphabet

anyway, i'm here to announce to everyone that there's one great milestone that i've recently met! ... that of learning the alphabet. i may have been confusing a letter or two with another, or mispronouncing a lot of them (F is "eps", L is "el" or "eln", P is "pie, P!", R is "ah" or "ayr", W is "dabow"). but i do know all 26 of 'em!

one thing you've got to know though is that i've learned all the weird letters first. i started with B such that all my letters are B. and among the letters of the alphabet, it wasn't A nor C that i've learned first, but Q, R, Y, H, K, P, S, M, O, X. does that make me weird then? hmmm. mom finds it cute though.

here's me and my letters/phonics ref magnets (mom just couldn't get a good video of me capturing all the letters since you know how i am with videos... but whenever we're skyping i'm a show-off with these alphabet magnets)


my numbers

some of you probably know that for some time my numbers consist of 2 and 2 alone. but now i know my numbers, at leat from 0 to 10 (thanks to mom's cellphone). i count with 2s, 3s and 9s only (as i do when i climb up or go down the stairs). but show me numbers 0, 2, 3, 8 and 9 and i'll tell you they're "che-yu", "tu", "ti", "eyt" and "nayn", respectively. i could not say the other numbers yet, but tell me where the numbers 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 are and i'll point at them for you.

i'm on a roll whenever i see letters and numbers everywhere, and i mean everywhere! i would "spell" the letters or spew out numbers that i see from a book, from a shirt, from a sign post, from a box of cereal, from a stop sign, from a shoe box, from a store sign, from an ad, everywhere! it's just delightful to see them scattered in every direction i look at.

words, phrases and sentences

since all of you know that i'm one helluva-talkative baby, i'm sure you're not surprised that i have countless of words now, a few phrases, and some sentences that are still hard to decipher (and still sounding chinese since i just wanna say a lot of words at one time and strike a conversation with my parents, specially when they're discussing and i want IN). some examples (and i will only enumerate a few phrases since this post is already long as it is): "no mon" (no more), "mo pees" (more please), "hi blank", "bye blank" (and i say hi and bye accompanied by a sweet smile and wave to everyone and everything like book, bed, etc), "te-chu" (thank you), and "no, no, no daddy!" (while pointing at daddy).

shapes

i've learned star ("tars") and heart ("haht") first before i learned crescent ("moon"), circle ("si-ke"), square ("ke") and triangle ("ta-ke"). and no, i cannot say rectangle! it's such a long word for one cute tot like me :)

colors?

nah, not colors with an s. i only know one color and that's "bu" (blue). as of this moment, everything's blue for me, teehee.