TAG books

I bought a  Leapfrog Tag Reading System before Winston was born.  He is now 22months, and I decided to get it out again a few weeks ago.  He seems to quite like it.

He gets it of the shelf himself, turns the pen on and looks for his favourite word in the book (which is yipeeee!) .

He doesn't follow sentences yet, which i think is because you have to be quite accurate with the pen, but he does 2 or 3 words in a row, and there is quite a lot of other information in the books from the pictures.

He is also not interested in listening to whole stories or pages, he just wants to point at words he likes or pictures he likes and hear those.

Everyone has a cough and a cold at the moment, but all the snow has melted and the sun is shining and the sky is perfect blue!

Update, Winston at 19months 2 weeks.

READING
Winston picked up most of the animals for this from a Melissa and Doug fishing puzzle game.
He soon learnt all the words, and enjoyed putting them on the right pictures.
We now have sets of kitchen implements,  birds, and musical instruments.

I have removed all the words in the kitchen... they were getting a bit old.. so have started with fresh new words... writing them as they come up and sticking them on the cupboards.

We have words all the way up the stairs, which are nicely at eye-level when Winston is climbing the stairs .. he likes to call them out. They need changing for fresh ones now though. I thought it might be good to make a story that makes sense when climbing the stairs.

When i am reading Winston some of the home made books, at the end of the page, He will often stop and point at a few of the words to get me to repeat them. Some books that i am quite sure he knows well, i just slowly turn the pages, trusting that he knows or can read the words. We still like "Enough Inigo Enough"

WRITING
All the words we have around the house, have been written  in front of Winston. Whenever we are drawing and I say "what shall we draw", he usually says "A" , and likes it when i draw an "A".  He likes to try to draw O , sometime I and E ... strange how its mainly the vowels. Sometimes he draws more complicated squiggles and says it is a person or something else, but usually he seems to be trying to draw letters. He holds the pen very nicely. I usually draw something other than letters, but he just mainly like trying the letters.

SPEAKING

He is regularly using two words together now.

He likes saying things like "green pen" ...  anything with a colour and a nouon .. especially BLUE

Also he loves having two of anything, so he can say "TWO FORKS" for example .. he smiles when given three of something and has started counting objects .. 6 and 9 are favorites to say - usually not at the right times.

Also "Winstons Chair" or "Daddys spoon"

MUSIC

We are encouraging Winston to play his little piano. Each time he plays , we give him a big cheer. He seems to be experimenting with it in a more purposeful way now. He lilkes to play with his bottom or his knees! I just bought a 1/2 size guitar. To start with  I will teach myself a bit (i know nothing), and let Winston have a go when he wants.


We have another boy on the way ... Winston seems to think he should be called AJA BAJA BURR (its not something arabic ... it means naughty naughty in Swedish) ... a 4D scan...

COUNTING

Winston likes to say "one, two, three, four, nine, six". He loves having or seeing 2 of anything, and he likes counting up and down the stairs.

Bajs .. Ish .. Water and words

We've had a hot few days , so have been to the seaside and the local lake a few times.  Winston loves going in the water, he laughs when he goes in cold water on the parts that we hate the water to reach!

He has become very reliable at shouting out BAJS! when he has a poo coming.  Sometimes he is saying it for about 20 minutes before he is truly ready to go .. and in that time , we might put him on his potty / toilet  quite a few times.. but eventually he will go.

I've been reading our home mad books to Winston more and more.. and using the flash words less.  Our kitchen is getting full of words  now .. as whenever something comes up, I write it an bluetack it.

I think he has forgotten the word BUS, but has got more comfortable with others. Here's a film. He said TREE for the first time, quite nicely.

Also, I have been starting to teach him about 16 action words.  When you leave a room and say bye to someone, Winston will often wave about 5 seconds later.  It is good to bear this in mind when teaching him new stuff ... he has to have time to work it out.  Here's a film of Winston learning some action words with his mental dad.

Winston can read his own name

He gave me "Elmer and the stranger" to read.

I opened it (see the picture of the first page).  He pointed at his name  and  said something that was clearly meant to be "Winston" ...  anyway 2 syllables and a sort of ST sound in the middle.

We looked around a couple of houses today in the Åsa region, looking to buy something that will fit our growing family and our business.

Winston seems to have picked up the word chair ... he says something like "air" and points, or goes up and pats chairs.

We also went to the see today. To a rocky place (nature area just north of Åsa)  where he didnt mind the waves coming over his feet .. he even had a big smile on the bigger waves.. then later to a sandy beach, where he was quite happy to walk on the sand  - a week ago in Poland he was quite hesistant.