Sorry And Mone Kaa-Keee-Kaa
- We have been prodding Srinidhi to say sorry when ever he does some mischief, say when he hits a friend ( yeah, he does that ! But now-a-days he is not doing it as much. ). He mostly says sorry when we tell him to. Yesterday, he stepped on Veena unintentionally and immediately said 'Sorry'!! No prodding. Another first.
- He puts together full sentences for a while now. Some recent ones, 'I wan mone kaa-keee-kaa', 'Appa helmeet big, Appu helmeet smaa' , 'Macy comin nest' etc. He combines many such sentences to narrate stories.
- He knows his colors, pink, blue, purple, green and yellow. He uses mainly to get his favorite pop (lollypop).
- He knows the shapes, circle, square, rectangle, triangle, diamond and heart.
- Just doesn’t want to go beyond ABCD on his own. He will repeat with us to Z, but not on his own :( Same with numbers, does not want to go beyond 3 on his own! Not interested in learning alphabets or numbers yet! Since he has great memory, we figured it is just his interest and not forcing him on that. Let him be a kid and learn when it interests him.
- Oh, he knows up/down, front/back, in/out and even right/left very well.
- He wants 'mone kaa-keee-kaa' all the time. ka-kee-ka is chocolate. He said chocolate reasonably when I taught him, but he goes back 'mone kaa-keee-kaa'. I guess it is easier and fun.
- We taught him to say 'Stop' when his friend hits him (yes that happens too :). He is now very liberal with its usage. Every time he wants to resist us from enforcing something, such as, 'you are getting off the tub now, you have been in the water for 30 minutes', he says 'Stop Appa Stop'. Of course, he doesn't have to use that much against Amma!
posted by Shan R Shanmuganathan at 12:20 AM
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Sri knows White, Orange, Brown, and Red too. His favorite shapes are Oval, Square and Star. he knows open and close and many other opposites- tall and short, hot and cold, night and day, happy and sad, fast and slow. He says "Kaanum Bike", He asks, "you like it?" and "you wann mone (more)?" and "you see that?" and just now he is showing me an elephant and saying "you see aanaa (elephant)? aanaa mooku (nose) water... !" Yesterday night he saw a picture of a baby crying in the rhymes book for the "Rock a bye baby in the tree top" rhyme and got so emotional. It made me emotional to see the two year old wiping the tears off the baby and talking to it for so long. I read other rhymes to him, but he kept going back to the crying baby.
We were talking about it and realized the list is much bigger than what we listed :) He uses lot of Tamizh words too.