updates, atbp.

colors
the best $1 investment = Crayola's Colors board book

3 weeks ago, we were at Target and we passed by the $1-item racks. i saw this board book about colors, and since it's just a dollar, i didn't have second thoughts throwing it into our cart.

pistoy's one and only colors board book only had blue, red, green, yellow and orange. and that book costs $10! anyway, this $1 book has all 8 basic colors, plus pink and white! nothing fancy, just 1 color per page.

why are board books so freakin' expensive! if they were able to publish a $1 board book, why can't the others do the same? why does education have to cost so much, from the 3-page baby books, to the board books, to costs of private schools and eventually college!

anyway, the $1 paid off! =P jecobie knows the 8 basic colors now! he surprised us all when he started "saying" the names last week. we were in chaos at home! =P

super bulol pa, but we were able to "decrypt" his code:
bra = brown
gi = green
bu = blue
insh = orange
purpo = purple
ba = black
o = yellow (je said it used to be something like "owo")
apa = red (don't ask me why. =P )

we were able to take a vid of jecobie reciting the colors when we show him the color markers (which we bought as a buy 1, get 1 deal). i uploaded it to my fb account. mama ayet has been bugging me to post pistoy vids, because papa norbie kept bragging to her about pistoy's latest "tricks". last time i talked to her, she said now she regrets not coming with papa. hehehe! =P

good job jecobie! we're so proud of you! *embrace-embrace!*

shapes
pistoy knows how to name some shapes now!
curco = circle
avo = oval
gago/gagon = pentagon
ish = star
ske = square
crocs = cross
art = heart
badede = triangle

he still gets a little confused with "rectangle" because it looks like a square. =P and we don't know what happened to his "triangle", he used to be able to say "taugu" which sound a little closer to triangle. hehe! now he says the same thing when he's refering to "butterfly", which is also "badede" in his vocab. *lol* i'm starting to think that any 3-syllable word to him is "badede". hahaha!

selective dyslexia
and we also think he is dyslexic with the letter "a". =P he calls "unan" as "anu", his "oval" as "avo". *lol* one time he kept saying "anu! anu!" and we can't understand him. then he picked up his pillow and said "anu!". i don't know how daddy je understood "anu" as "unan" right away. pareho ata silang mag-isip ni pistoy, laging sila ang nagkakaintindihan. patay tayo dyan!

run pistoy run!
pistoy also suddenly turned into this running machine! we used to be able to do grocery shopping with him just sitting on the cart. now he wants to go down, and run run run! he would run up and down the aisles. we always try to catch up with him, because he could get run over by other people's carts when they're not expecting a little kid to emerge out of an aisle at full speed. or maybe some people might be in a hurry, or not paying attention. needless to say, kami ang mas pagod pag sinasama namin si pistoy sa stores. on the flip side, alam namin na if we want to tire him out, just bring him to a store and he would run off his energy. hehe!

on a side note:
i think we know what jecobie will be sa halloween. we'll paint him blue. and he'll be MegaMind! *lol* je and i were watching that movie when it hit me, and i had a hard time completing my sentence because i can picture pistoy really pulling it off. hahaha! mean mom! =P