My little fan-girl

[ladyjanelly]

 Heh. Sami is like 21 months now.  Whee time flies!
Anyway.  Her first fandom is the Wiggles.  Because she wakes up in the morning calling for them by name. 
Her first slash fandom is Cars, because she has 2 of the Lightning McQueen matchbox style cars and she has them kiss.

She knows the letters of the alphabet and we've started showing her words and sounding them out.  She looks up at my laptop screen and points to the first word of a paragraph and says "Jensen!"    My days of reading NC-17 fic are limited.  I figure I have about 4 more months before she'll be able to read words I haven't sounded out for her.  

Her new sentences are "Who's that?"  and "What's that?"  

I can't believe I didn't have a tag for my baby.  Sheesh.  I feel like a bad mom.  

Oh, anybody who wants to see videos of her, they're here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ladyjanelly

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

the snowman videos are charming! bad berries! she's beautiful. :)

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) I need a new Sami icon.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Awwww, what a sweet baby! Thanks for sharing!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

She really is sweet. I don't know how I got so lucky.

[elmathelas.livejournal.com]

I love the theatrical gesture to the berries. "BAD!" Yes. We had bad berries in our yard too. When I grew up I realized that if we'd eaten them we'd have had diarrhea for the ages, but they weren't deadly. But as a kid they added a certain element of theatrical peril to any venture around the yard.

I learned to read really early too. I'm sure I was reading at about 30 months and by the time my sister was born (36 months) I was more fluent than my babysitters. I didn't sound out words though and when I got to kindergarten I remember thinking OH NO I AM NEVER GOING TO GET THIS when confronted with the idea that letters make sounds. There are certain theorists and educators who don't like the idea of really early readers, but as she's coming to it organically (as opposed to the regimented flash card craze that has swept a certain type-A segment of the nation) she'll be fine and as in nearly all things you must ignore the silly people who tell you what to do with your child.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

She likes to carry small things in her mouth (like popcorn seeds or pennies) so we tried to nip her eating berries in the bud. Despite the theatrics, she still puts them in her mouth if we turn our backs for a second.

We weren't planning on doing any early reading, but she started picking out letters before I was consciously teaching them. There were some letters on her Sesame Street videos and she started pointing them out whenever she saw them (C and M were called Cookie and Mommy's). So it seemed silly to not let her know the rest. We've been watching videos at Starfall.org whenever she wants to. She calls it "Letters." We're working on recognizing the lower case letters now, and trying to sound out more words. I'm trying to let her set the pace as much as possible.

[ebbingnight.livejournal.com]

Her first slash fandom is Cars, because she has 2 of the Lightning McQueen matchbox style cars and she has them kiss.

That's adorable and so characteristic of the age. Pity most of us lose the ability to see life that way!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

I am dreading the day she's too big for hugs and snuggles.

I love seeing through her eyes. She's at that awesome age where she is using 2 and 3 word sentences but still sees things in such a unique way. Like--she knows airplanes, and when she sees them she points and says "Airplane! Airplane! Shark!"