Wednesday, December 24, 2008

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.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

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.:)


Sunday, December 7, 2008

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.