Miss K fell asleep during lunch right after a big morning of swimming.
She surprised me when we were leaving, she started pointing out the numbers on the keypads on the vending machines. She can reliably identify 1 through 4, and I think 0. The others are a little random.
Will have some photos to post that our instructor took. will throw them up as soon as I get them.
Yes, yes it's been a long time between updates. Lets not get into that....
K its doing well. She is very much fun to play with and has quite a large vocabulary, both english and japanese.
Interestingly enough she won't talk to me in japanese not matter how much I try. She will use mostly japanese to H and only reverts to english when she doesn't know the japanese equivalent. Because if day care she its much more fluent in english, although her english is behind the rest if her class. We are not concerned though, as this is expected of bilingual kids.
She has many concepts down too. She had most of the basic colors down. Right now her favorite color seems to transitioning from pink to purple.
In terms of shapes she us doing well and is able to recognize and name the following in english and japanese: circle, square, triangle
In english she also can name and recognize: cloud, squiggle, heart, diamond, rectangle and pentagon.
The last two are more recent (about 3 months ago) while all of the others she's been able to recognize for over 6 months, perhaps even earlier than that.
Pentagon and rectangle caught us off guard as we didn't teach her that. She just recognized it one day, which shocked me, thinking that I had a child prodigy on my hand I quickly drew a hexagon, which she promptly identified as a pentagon.
She is now aware of hexagons but can really distinguish then from pentagons, which is fair enough when you can't really count properly yet.
Enough from me for now, here's a recent pics of kaitlyn.
So we annouced kaitlyns first steps... but for a number of weeks she really didn't walk much. A step or two here and there, but not really walking. Until about 20 mins ago. Hitomi and I were discussing what time we should start kaitlyns bed time routine. Hitomi was in the kitchen and I was in the living room watching kaitlyn. She was doing her usual cruising around the couch and ottoman when all of a sudden she let got of the couch and the ottoman and walked to the end of the couch to her baby einstien. At least 5 consecutive steps!
Hitomi and I were floored and were cheering her on like crazy. So she decided to walk some more and more and more.
By the end of it she was walking from the couch to the end of the dining area. 18 steps! she even made some turns into the kitchen. She also able to stop mid way and gently go into a crawl!
We managed to capture some of this on camera, but all of the longer walks required both of us to spot her (she moves quick!)
So just this sunday morning past kaitlyn said her first word. She's been playing with sounds alot lately. She's started with dadadaada and then bababababa then moved onto mumumumumum. However none of it was on context.
for a couple of weeks we've been wondering if she's been saying elsa. However it sounded like "elda" or sometimes we think she'd call elsa Eh!
However on sunday morning the word elsa came out clear as day. It wasn't an elda, it was definitely a very cute high pitched "elsa!" It was in context as well as elsa had just walked by and grabbed her attention.
Later that morning we realized that she might think that all dogs are elsa as hitomi was holding her near the fridge. On the fridge we have a dog calendar. She reached forward to the calendar and said "elsa" again.
Though again we are not sure that she can recognize dogs from other furry animals, so perhaps all small furry things are elsa.
Anyhoo we are definitely calling "elsa" her first word :)
