Cagalli's Corner

I know I know! September's almost gone and not a single post! My only excuse is that we've been pretty busy lately. Kalli was also sick for a week and was confined to the hospital. I've started blogging about it, but so far it's still in draft form. I'll finish and publish it soon. For now I just want to write some updates here.

At 22 months Kalli has been conversing pretty well now. She speaks in sentences and even knows her grammar. The other day I heard her tell tita May "Get it tita May! Get it!" She was asking her tita May to get the toy on the other side of the bed. Finally she reached for it herself and said "Got it!" Imagine, she knows her past and present tense! Hahaha. She also knows plural forms (she's been using this for a long time now). She adds S to her words when there's more than 1. One ball, Two balls. One Toy, Many Toys. Only problem is that she's also saying "Many Peoples", hahaha. But that's alright. She also knows the use of 's for ownership. Again, this one she has known since forever. She says "Mommy's pillow". Or "Daddy's car". OR "No tita LA, that's mommy's", when she sees tita LA using my blanket. No one taught her these things. She just figured them out on her own. It really pays to talk to kids the right way and not baby talk. You'll be amazed at how quickly they learn! Yesterday we went to mass and Kalli was looking inside her bag. She found a pack of biscuits and she wanted to open it. She went to her dad, thought for a moment, then said "Abye! Abye!". Hahaha, for those of you who didn't get that, she was saying "Abre! Abre!" Now she's speaking spanish too, thanks to Dora and Diego! These past couple of days she has been using "Abye" instead of "Open". It's quite funny really :)

There's so many things that I want to write about, but I just don't have the time. Hopefully I'll have more time after next week... or maybe not :(

Oh well, back to work...

BTW, the link to the tabblo of our family portrait is http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1595350/

I'm making a tabblo for this set... but here's a teaser for now :)



She's growing up so fast!

Ok, I know a lot of you have been waiting for new pictures or videos of Kalli, so here they are. Sorry the orientation is wrong again. I keep forgetting that you can't rotate videos :( Anyhoo, up-side-down or down-side-up, I'm sure you'll enjoy these :)

KALLI COUNTING AT 20 MONTHS



Notice how she even tries to correct her pronunciation? ;) Mommy's so proud!

KALLI'S FULL SENTENCE

Ok, I told you about this before right? Well in case you didn't believe me.... (hehehe)



Until next post!

Kalli was trying to wake her tita LA the other morning when she saw the basketball on the shelf. She asked me for the ball saying "ball, ball". I told her "may?". She thought for a moment, then slowly said "MAY I HAVE BALL PIS?" Oh my goodness, my baby's talking in sentences now! Hahaha, tita LA was quite shocked. I too was a little surprised that she got all the words correctly, though I was hopeful she would. She actually has been practicing the night before. At first I didn't realize what she was doing. She kept saying the words "have", "I" "pis" (please), "may". Understanding dawned on me when she told me "MOMMY, MAY HAVE NOAH PIS?" (Note that Noah is her book). I was so proud of her then, even though she forgot the word "I". She really is a smart kid :)

Since then she has spoken these sentences on her own (without prompting):

• "May I have mamam pis?" - when she was asking for the milk yesterday
• "May I have buds pis?" - when I was trying to put her to sleep last night. She loves it when I clean her ear with the cotton buds.
• "Mom pis?" - meaning "more please"
• "May I have donut pis?" - just this morning at breakfast

She tries really hard, though sometimes the words "I" and "May" drops off. Or sometimes the order is wrong like "May have I..." Still, I think she's quite amazing given that she's only 20 months old. I'm SOOO proud of my baby girl :)

Kalli and I were playing on the bed last night when I asked her if she wanted to read a book. She nodded her head and sat on the corner to wait for me to get one. Kalli loves her books and she remembers all of them. I usually make her choose which one she wants to read, and so last night I asked her again.

MOMMY: Kalli, what book do you want?
KALLI: ship ship (nodding her head quite vigorously)

I thought for a moment, what could she mean? Then I remembered her Brainy Baby Shapes and Colors book. She probably meant Shapes.

MOMMY: Oh, you want Shapes and Colors?
KALLI: mommy ship ship
MOMMY: Shapes? Shapes?
KALLI: ship ship
MOMMY: Yes baby, shapes
KALLI: No mommy no. Ship ship.
MOMMY: Boat? You want little mermaid? (thinking yaya might have told her about Prince Eric's ship)
KALLI: Mommy no. ship

I paused and looked at her.

KALLI (nodding her head like she's talking to a baby): ship ship mommy... baaah baaahhh

Hahaha! Well of course she meant sheep! Now why didn't I think of that??? Well, in my defense, she has never called the sheep "ship" before. She has always called it "baaaah" (just as she calls the cow "mooo"). But then she learns so many things everyday, I shouldn't have been surprised :)

So I took out her "Old McDonald" book and her "Brainy Baby Animals" book from the cabinet and showed it to her. She nodded her head happily and waited for me on the bed.

And then we started reading :)

I just posted the suppliers for Kalli's 1st birthday party but I set the date to December 2007 (since sobrang tagal na nya, hahaha). If you want to read it, you can visit the link below:
http://cagalli-corner.blogspot.com/2007/10/kallis-harry-potter-bash-story-and.html

I'll try to post Kali's latest pictures and videos soon.