Here's Kalli writing her own name. For the record, she has learned to do this when she was 2 years and 5 months old. She has already written her name on all her books. Needless to say, she has learned to spell her name too. Aside from her name, she knows how to spell MOMMY, DADDY, DOG and CAT too.
(Did you get her joke there in the end? ;b)
And here's Kalli drawing tita May's garden. She really loves to draw. She prefers drawing to coloring. Though I've bought her lots of coloring books, she likes her sketch pads more. So far she has finished four 50-page sketch pads. Maybe I'll post some more of her drawings here. Right now her favorite subjects are fishes, ponds, beach and ocean, horses, elephants, boats and people.
Kalli had her first dentist appointment last May 23, 2009. I was worried that she'll lose most of her teeth by the time she turns 3. I've been brushing her teeth regularly but I guess her temporary teeth is weak because her 4 front teeth already have cavity :( I wanted to bring her to a pedia-dentist that my friend recommended but I didn't want to wait, so I just brought her to "Little Ones" in the Mall of Asia. I was afraid she would cry and I tried to explain that the dentist will clean her teeth and ask her to open her mouth prior to us going there. I even showed her some pictures. I was really happy and proud when she willingly sat on the dental chair and did everything the dentist asked her! She was so behaved and quite the big girl! She was even willing to go inside the room alone with the dentist :) The dentist checked all her teeth and gave her a fluoride cleaning. She recommended filling up 4 of her teeth (one per visit) and we'll probably do that. I know it's only temporary teeth but I don't want her to have a gap very early. It might skew the growth of her permanent teeth.
Anyway, below is a picture of her in the dental chair. See how happy and unafraid she was? :) I wanted to take more pictures but the dentist didn't allow picture taking while she was working.
Kalli was watching Baby Einstein's Baby McDonald with tita LA a little while ago and I was in the other room. I could hear their conversation and I found it pretty fascinating and funny. It started out with Kalli asking her tita LA for milk.
Kalli said, "Milk please, milk please".
Tita LA answered, "You ask the cow for milk." If you're not familiar with Baby McDonald, there's a song there that goes, 'The cow gives us milk, the cow gives us milk...'
Kalli smartly answered, "Sometime the people can give us milk."
Tita LA replied, "No, the cow gives us milk. Ask the cow for milk."
By this time, I think Kalli was getting frustrated. "Milk, milk, milk!"
"How do you ask???", tita LA asked her.
"May I have my milk please?" Kalli tried again.
"Okay, ask the cow." Tita LA again replied.
"Milk please. You're the cow. You're the cow tita LA!"
"I'm not the cow!" Tita LA replied, sounding a bit incredulous.
Hahahaha, I don't think you can win with Kalli! I can just imagine all her arguments and excuses when she grows up... Hmmm, what a sobering thought...
Here's the last set of the PRE-K videos. Notice how at home Kalli was already on the 3rd day. There were only two of them left and both kids were feeling a bit competitive, hahaha.
Warning: There are more video clips in this set. But I just had to upload them all! I'm sure you'll enjoy them too :)
Singing the Welcome Song
Where is Kalli? She's been practicing this song at home
We're Gonna Shake
According to Kalli, we wear the hat when it'raining in the head, and the umbrella when it's raining on the floor, hahaha
Kalli's so "Daldal"! Bibo-kids too :)
The kids were feeling so competitive. Did you hear Kalli ask the teacher, "Are you going to start with Kalli?" Hahaha
Both kids didn't like the glue on their hands, hahaha.
I love this! Kalli was having trouble carrying the drum, hahaha
Kalli wanted to sing Ariel's Song... panalo, hahaha
Some writing exercises... Kalli was so curious
Okay, that's the last. Hope you enjoyed them as much as I did :)
As promised, here are more video clips of Kalli's trial PRE-K class. But before that let me just share how Kalli loved her classes. Her classes start at 2pm. That's usually her nap time. For 3 days she fell asleep in the car going to class. I let her sleep in her stroller until 15 minutes before the class. When it's time to wake her up, I just tell her, "Kalli, we're here at Gymboree. It's time for your class. Are you ready?". For three days, she would immediately wake up, almost in a panic, and say "I'm ready! I'm ready!". Hahaha, it was so funny how excited she got. Even now, she tells me once in a while that she wants to go back there. Oh, if only we have the money :(
Anyway, going back to the videos, these clips were taken during the second day. There were only 3 of them left. The other girl Allysa was sick and had to go home. The other boy didn't participate much cause he didn't want to let go of his toy. You'll notice that Kalli was feeling more confident here than her first day.
Here, Kalli was tasked to find "Tueday". She was so good :)
This here is one of my favorites :) I love how she's always so curious and willing to learn. She so proud of herself too, it's adorable :)
Notice that Kalli was always looking at her classmates.
Notice how she was almost always the one answering? :)
Kalli loves arts and crafts too :)
Here's another favorite of mine :) She was so funny singing "Old McDonald" :) I guess she liked the headphones more than the crayons.
I've been trying to teach Kalli her numbers but she seems to be having trouble remembering what they look like. I bought her these rubber numbers which I use as flash cards and one time we were playing with it. I asked her to show me number 1 but she couldn't remember. In frustration, I picked it up and told her, "Kalli, I've been trying to teach you number 1 for a long time. Why isn't it sticking to your head?" She told me then, "Okay okay, it will stick now." Then she took the number 1 and tried to plaster it to her head! Hahaha, I laughed and laughed. When it started falling, she said, "It's not sticking mommy!" Hmmmmmmm, stick to head nga naman...
Anyway, this last week I tried a different approach to teaching her. For the whole week we're only learning numbers 1 and 2. I carry the rubber numbers everywhere and throughout the day I'll ask her what they are. We started last monday and it seems she has learned it already. When I mix the numbers 1 and 2 with the others, she can easily pick them out. Hopefully it sticks even when we start learning the other numbers too :)
I signed up Kalli in a free 3-day pre-kinder trial class at Gymboree and she was soooo good! She loved it too! I was so tempted (and still is) to enroll her in June. If only it wasn't so expensive :( One school year of PRE-K is 58,000 pesos.
At first there were 4 of them in the class. Two of them (Kalli and Allysa) were 2 years and 5 months old, while the others (JM and Julia) were 2 years and 8 months. Among the four, Kalli and Julia seemed to be the most ready to attend school. By the last day, the two of them were the only ones left.
I took a lot of videos and I'll be posting them as I upload them. For now, here are some clips from the first day.
In this video, Kalli was telling her teacher how she got the fish tattoo on her hand during the playtime session before class. Her teacher was pretty impressed with the way she talked and told me so at the end of the class :)
Kalli was still a bit shy during the first day. By the 3rd day she owned the place, hahaha.
In this video, Kalli was asked to put Gymbo's picture on "Monday". She was told that "Monday" starts with M and she found it. I was so proud, hahaha.
It was story time here and the teacher gave them cookies to eat while they listened to the story. Kalli loves stories and books and she was so attentive.
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