Phonics and words

Sincere has been able to sound out words for a while now. We begin doing phonics with him about 17 months after he learned the alphabet. After Sincere had the letters down it picked up the sounds right away. Then we worked on sight words and then phonics. I don't know if that is the order you supposed to do it in but oh well. LOL! Sometimes he will guess at a word but if I slow him down and tell him to sound it out he gets the word. He has figured out some tough words when we are out in public.

I just realized in the video when he says dog he does a downward dog. LOL! And when he isn't paying attention in the middle of the video I held up a piece of Christmas candy to get his attention. Bad mommy. :)

The other video is longer and is just some older video of Sincere working on sounds and words on Starfall.

Sincere Calling Shantel

I don't talk a lot on the cell phone. But I will admit when I do I tend to talk to Shantel the most. The other day I was sitting with Sincere and he picked up the phone and started to try to call Shantel and he acted like she picked up the phone and they were talking. He went on and on so I ran to the room grabbed the camera and he called her quickly again for me. So funny because he actually gave a pretty good imitation of me.

Maybe this means we talk to each other too much!!!

Parent of the Year Award Here I Come

Sincere went to go see Santa. Everything was fine until he actually had to get near the big guy. After that it was downhill. Of course being the attentive loving mom I am I stood there and recorded it instead of comforting him. I am telling you I am one bad parenting decision from mom of the year.:)

Reading and Zac makes a mess

Okay this took for ever for me to capture. Trying to hold an active kid on your lap, point and click with one hand and hold a camera with the other is a hard task. Plus Sincere doesn't really like to perform on demand so this video took about a month to get. LOL!

This is an online book from an awesome site called Starfall. Sincere likes the Zac the Rat book. I think its because Zac makes a mess and doesn't clean it up. You can hear Sincere say "Zac made a mess" in the video. He is clearly impressed with his ability to make a mess. Figures.

Enjoy my little man reading.

Trains Across America

I had to get a video of Sincere and his trains up. He is so in love with his trains its not funny. He knows the names of every train and will correct you if you say the wrong name. He plays with them, baths with them, sleeps in the bed with them. He is trains all day everyday. So here is a video of him saying some of his trains names.

He also is starting to learn the states. He has about 8 down and we are trying to add some every week. I need to get a map puzzle with states that aren't connected. Its hard to teach the states when 5 of them are on one piece. But here he goes.

Spanish and Lots of Energy

So I have a couple videos of Sincere I need to post. So many videos so
little time. So here are two I manage to get up. I will try to post the
rest later. The first one is Sincere speaking Spanish. He
knows his colors, up to 10, some body parts and some simple requests
and commands in Spanish. Its almost more then I know. Its wild how
easily they pick up aforeign language!!! Especially since we don't
speak it in the home. The second one is just a sample of the type of
energy Sincere has every day all day. Its funny watching it on tape but
not so funny when he is doing this at 4:30 in the morning. :(

Reading Funny Words

We have been writing down words on cards from books Sincere loves, food he eats
or words he sees all the time and Sincere has been reading them. So the other day I stuck in two funny words into his cards and after a couple times he picked them. So this morning I captured him on video tape reading a couple of the words he knows.

One of the funny words he sees all the time (hint- Its Obama) and he normally does a little fist pump with it but I will have to get that on another video. The other word he sees all the time because mommy loves it.LOL!

The video cut off towards the end so I had to start recording again.

Reading and colors

So I figured it was time for some new videos. Sincere has been doing a
lot of cool things here is some footage I managed to get. In the
reading video he is some of the words he is able to read. Of course
Thomas would be one of them. LOL! The second video is him doing some of the colors he knows. Enjoy!!!

His Numbers

So I have been trying to get Sincere and his numbers for more than a
month. Every time I pull out the camera he stops so its been difficult.
But I managed to get enough footage for a small montage of him
recognizing his numbers and counting. Its a bit long because its my
first montage but my favorite parts are the counting in the bathtub at
the beginning and the last part of him counting with the
Elmo where he whispers his numbers at the top of the stairs. It took me a month of being a paparazzi to get some footage.
Enjoy!

Sincere Doing Colors and Opposites

Sincere has been doing colors and opposites from one of his favorite
books. He knows and can say several colors. Sincere being who his
usually stops when the camera comes out but we got him at least
pointing to the colors. LOL! He also does opposites- open/close,
big/small, up/down, etc. So we got some video on that too. Working on
getting the numbers on tape but he likes to get silly when the camera
is out. I will try to get that on a sneaky tip soon. Meanwhile enjoy
thislittle video.

Polly Want A Cracker

Sincere will repeat anything you say. Most of the times he says it pretty clear. We went on a trip to NYC last weekend and Sincere was in full parrot mode. I managed to get a the tail end of one of his repeating sessions on film. Listen carefully he says a couple things.

26 Little Letters

As of two weeks ago Sincere offically can say the whole alphabet. W was
the last letter he conqured. And its still not perfect, he says Double,
but we love it!!! I have been trying for 2 weeks to get him to do it on
camera. But trying to hold a huge camera, pick up letters and get
Sincere to sit still is difficult to say the least. This session had to
be broken into two because the camera stopped recording but we got it.
I will try to get a better video of it when he lets me. Warning he is a
tad rascally in this footage. ETA- I noticed the camera had stopped
recording and didn't get the W. So I had to add another video that had
W in it.

The Alphabet

Sincere has learned a couple of the letters from the alphabet so far he knows like 17 of them. There are a couple that are proving to be pretty difficult for him to say. He won't say W, T, C,Q, or Z when you ask him. But can point to C when you ask.

So I wanted to get it on video. He was pretty tired here and started to throw the letters but the ones he didn't throw we got on tape. I love how he says X.

Scared of the ladybug

Sincere has a mortal enemy. Its scary and mean. Its a ferocious beast and Sincere wants no part of his evilness. No sir. The beast has many legs, strange markings, beady eyes and a hard shell. Want to know what it is that scares Sincere to his core. What crazy monster I speak so foully
of?......Its a stuffed ladybug. LOL!

For some reason that me and daddy can not figure out, Sincere is scared to the core by this ladybug. He starts shaking and screaming at even the site of this little ladybug. We don't know if something happened with that ladybug that we don't know about or what. But Sincere has
developed an aversion for it. We are wondering if something happened with a real ladybug and he is connecting to that memory. I did find a real ladybug in his room a while back ago and let it out the window. And there was a smooshed one that Sincere pointed out on the stairs the other day. But that's are only guess. He likes the duck and bird that came with that set. Its just the ladybug that freaks him out.

He won't even walk in front of the creature. I of course had to get this on video. Poor baby!!!

Yoga Baby

Sincere always makes me proud but today he had mommy beaming from ear
to ear!!! My little baby is a yoga baby. He did a little yoga with
mommy this morning. He did about 10 minutes of downward dog!!! I just
had to grab a camera and document this milestone. Oh and excuse the
q-tips on the floor. He had just got done dumping q-tips all over the
floor.

CAN'T POST VIDEO FOR SOME REASON. SO CHECK IT OUT ON YOU TUBE AT THIS ADDRESS-

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_SxwNpNkbQQ

Baby Linebacker

Here is Sincere in action. He doesn't care if the kid is bigger or not
he is going to try his hardest to take them down. He also pushed a
little girl down and made her cry. I got on him about and told him he
should say sorry he just looked but I think he is getting the idea that
it doesn't make mommy happy when he pushes people. At least I hope. He
just gets super excited when he sees other kids.

Sincere Reading His First Word

We got Sincere some reading videos thanks to a wonderful friend who
told us about them. Well we haven't really been working on it with him
but I did make some flash cards and showed it to him last week. He
picked up on the word ball right away. Although he says ball with a d,
"dall". So funny!!!

Baby Book Worm

Well we have a baby book worm on our hands. Sincere loves his books. He can pick out books when its time to read and for Sincere that means any time of the day. He picks out his favorite night time books, jumps on our laps and sits back as we read each book several times. Well it didn't take long for Sincere to want to read to us. Although its a bunch of baby talk to hear him try to read is so funny. Here he is trying to read his night time books. Thats my little book worm!!!