Ah Tee Cees

She's fairly consistent with her interpretation of the alphabet and 1 thru 10. Though ABC and 123 sound very similar in Alina language. When we do the alphabet together, she bops up and down to the rhythm and eagerly waits for the letters she knows so she can yell them out. Mostly, she favors anything that rhymes with C, but she says "Osh" for the letter H. It's a lot of fun to see which new letters she's testing out vocally. The J was solid last night. We should have a scoreboard.

We bought those square foam tiles that have the letters and numbers on them. You know, the ones that fit together like puzzle pieces? They're in our kitchen now. Mostly, Alina just likes taking it apart. So we removed the borders and the little pieces that go in the holes like in B, P, O, etc. The letters themselves can be removed from the square as well. So, it was getting ridiculous, putting that back together every day. The stripped down version is easier to deal with. Well, the whole thing seemed like a good idea at the time. I don't know why we thought she'd do anything other than try to dismantle it at 17 months. But I started holding letters up and asking her to point to ones I call out. And if she plucks a letter out of the its foam square and carries it around, I try to teach her what it is. I'm hoping to balance out the fact that she probably watches the fucking Doodlebops at daycare. When Katrina was reading the blog entry about them below, Alina walked up and pointed to them with horrifying recognition. I was horrified, not her.