Reading books , chinese and speaking

Winston is saying loads of words now. Almost anything that he hears loud and clear and is interested in, he will have a go at copying.. actually anything of 2 syllables or less.

He occasionally puts 4 words together ... such as "Daddy , get down, Diddi" ... meaning .. "Daddy , put Winston down" or "Daddy help Winston down (from a chair)"    Get sounds more like GIT .. i don't know where he got the Texan accent from!!

Here is Winston reading "Enough Inigo Enough", He is  1 year 8 months and 2 weeks (20 1/2 months) old.

He gets to about the 4th page, then prefers I read it to him. We don't push him. Its nice how he reacts to a word like family.

Winston loves this video from Kidstv123 on youtube ... they do lots of good ones

Heres our playlist at the moment
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL74FFAE35E8DD83D8

We've put Earworms Chinese in the car, and Winston is shouting out bits and bobs from it. His pronouciation is very good.... with apparently very little effort.

reading and talking

Winston occassionlly puts 3 words together now .. such as "Didi Amma Mamma"

He is making up his own words that are quite logical.. such as Amma Mamma (is sweish for breastfeed mummy) ... so he says Addy Daddy or Apf Mapf (mapf is his swedish word for Daddy).

I typed out Zog (a book by Julia Donaldson) , so it had one big sentance per page. He likes this and tends to shout out the last word on the page. He also points to some words on each page and some dots.

We are on holiday in a cottage in  Orsa this week.

Some new words

Winston is coming out with new words too quick to note them all.

But today, he said "thank you" very nicely

He also said "monkey"  and (unfortunately) "bugger"   .... when we got to the entrance of the Aquraium and discovered it was closed.


and today 20th December

Naughty (usually without pronouncing the T) which is cute,  and  OFFICE, which he said very nicely.

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.

baby reading - M__PIE

At breakfast this morning, the magpies were looking through the compost ... so said to Winston .. this is a magpie. I told him I would write it down for him. I did this although he wasnt really paying attention. When I showed it to him  he said "M...Pie"  .. i.e. he knows the word Pie and he knows the letter M, so he was having a good effort at reading a word he didn't know.

Other new stuff.  Winston can climb on his own triptrap chair.  He pulled his trousers down the other day before being taken to the toilet. (its hard to walk with your trousers round your ankles).

Winston is combine two words now... usually Daddy's spoon,  Winston's (didis) fork etc.   Who it belongs to and what it is.

When i tell him not to do something and say a nice clear NO ... he ofter wanders off to where the word no is written on the wall and points at it.

In the car driving around he says letters that he sees.

He still prefers the home made books to the bought ones and can easily identify them by there (text only) covers.

Numbers .. 1 to 4 is fine.. above that is guesswork . Like some remote tribes .

Winston is 18months and 2 weeks old.

on holiday in turkey

cough, coffee and path

I showed  Winston the word cough ... and he does a little cough each time.

I have also been showing him coffee.  Since he could read the word cough, when i showed him coffee, he also did a little cough. So i guess he doesnt understand the word coffee.. but when he reads it he knows that part of the word is the same sound as cough.

I am trying to introduce 5-10 words a day at the moment... he picks them up so fast.  Today he learnt the word  PATH very quickly and he can pronounce it quite well as well.

I put him to sleep by laying next to him today. It took a while and there were some small grumbles ... i think mainly because he had just had quite a big drink and wanted a wee... but after about  30minutes he wenyt to sleep (without Mamma or boob).