Doing Early Multiplication

Sincere has being doing basic math and addition for a while now. The other day I decided to throw some multiplication into the mix. He seemed to grasp the concept fairly easy although I had problems trying to tell him what multiplication's purpose was. I ended up telling him it was fast addition. Lately I have been running into the problem of not knowing how to teach him certain things because I don't know how to explain them. Like how to explain to a phonetic reader how to read words that don't follow the rules. Or how "e" at the end of the word changes can change the vowel sound. Or how to explain to a kid learning the Spanish alphabet not to use that alphabet in English words.

Once I showed him how to work the problem out he seemed to really get it. I didn't know if I was supposed to teach him the times tables first or how to work it out. So since he has a good memory I decided to show him how to work it out and figured he would memorize the tables as he works through them. Lately he has also been counting in his head a lot which has surprised me.

The camera is barely working right now. Right in time for the holidays. We went to Best Buy to price a new one but I need to look up reviews before I buy one. I need one that can take a lot of dropping. :) So this video is in bits of pieces. Everytime I tried to film the camera would turn off and he would stop. So just pieced this together. The last clip was taken after I found him trying to take a bite out of a marker.

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He is Now 3!!!!

My baby is now 3!!! I can't even believe it. Where did all the time go? I half way expect to see him wake up with a mustache.

We celebrated his birthday on Sunday Nov 8th with a "Birthday Get Together" at the roller skating ring. His friends Aris, Anthony and Bralin came out to celebrate with him. As well as their parents and his Grandma Judy came. He had a good time and he skated a little. He was happy at first but after a few falls and realizing there was presents to open he wanted his skates off. But it was cute to watch him in his skates while it lasted.

Trick or Treating

I know this video is super late but I have been super busy lately. I figure better late then never. In the clip you can get a glimpse at how much fun he was having trick or treating. Most of the time that night I couldn''t tape him because he ws going so fast. He really enjoyed Halloween this year. :)