How to teach your baby to read

Okay, I finally finished reading the book today. Next, I will need to make 200 single word cards. Once the prep work is done, it should be smooth... :-) Today she's walking faster with her walker, I'm sure she'll walk on her own very soon.

Her first coupe - cozy coupe

I'm very lucky to have found a little tikes cozy coupe on craigslist for Alana. I picked it up this morning.Wow, it's not very dirty or old. I am sure Alana will have fun sitting in it and scooting around the house when I get it cleaned. :) Her rody horse finally arrived today. Yeah!! She's soooo cute. After we opened the box, I put her to sit in the box and she enjoyed it! She refused to get out of the box. Haha. Rody is not inflated yet. She rocked her on the floor and said 'Baby'... Cute. When Steve's home, we'll inflate rody so that she can bounce on it! Hooray!

we went to the library for story time today. Alana was quiet. She was satisfied by crinkling the paper. She wasn't as active as other toddlers - crawling around and playing with one another. She liked pointing at the bubbles at the end of the story time. Then we went out some books to take home with us.

I do like bringing her to the story time - we sing songs together other than listening to the stories. How come we didn't have such things in Hong Kong when I was young? Well, anyway, my mom wasn't into it...But I know what I should do with my daughter and I will do my best!!

First time calling me mammy

YES, I heard Alana clearly said MAMMY yesterday during a diaper change. Today, she said BABY. Nothing is happier than hearing Alana talking. She's so cute! She's been more energetic since my parents stay with us. I am sure it is definitely good for her brain development as she constantly gets attentions from extra 2 adults in the house. She seems to understand Chinese well as my parents reported. It's wonderful to be a parent, Alana amazes me every day.

Monday playdate

We are going for a walk! Yay!! Get out of the house to kiss the sun :-D I should put on shoes for Alana so that she can practise walking. Hehehe. I love living at the current place, with many parks nearby and very nice neighbors.

How to teach your baby math

Okay, today I watched the DVD 'how to teach your baby math' myself. Okay, I am skeptical. But I am also amazed every day whenever Alana demonstrates her ability to learn as a baby. She can understand both Chinese and English!! It wouldn't hurt if we give this math program a try. I have faith in her - she will learn whatever facts we show her. I do not want to waste her learning potential in her first six years of life, honestly. I am so glad that I bought the math dots flash card and the book through local craigslist. I can't wait to show her the cards!

I really want to attend the course for parents in PA in March. But I am quite sure we can't make it since I'm still a nursing mom, how can I leave her for 5 whole days??

The course will be available in June and October too...but I'm not sure. I wish there were classes in WA!

Recent nights I've been reading a blog about a parent religiously following Glenn Doman's program. The blog is very interesting. I am very eager to learn how to teach Alana at home.

Her future is in my hands?

Alright, I know I haven't typed my blog for a long time. It's been a very special year for me: I have become a mother! Alana has just turned one. I am very fortunate that I am a stay-at-home-mom which allows me to spend lots of time with my girl during the day. It was our decision right before getting married! I couldn't believe when we were still dating, Steve already said that I'd have to stay at home with our kids when we had ours. At that time, I couldn't understand why. Almost all of the moms I knew of were working moms and left their kids to their grandparents or maids. So, it sounded weird to me to stay home with my kid! TODAY, I finally realize how lucky I am! I can witness all of the milestones Alana's going to reach, make her homemade babyfoods, take her to the libraries or playdates whenever we want to. And the best thing? We bond really well. I certainly hope that she will know no matter what happens in the future, mammy and daddy are always with her.



In fact, I am having the advantage being a SAHM. I can teach her anything anytime! Since I spend so much time with her, what I do will become influential to her. I need to be a good model to her so that she will look up to me! I am pretty serious about finding fun ways to teach her. I did everything I could find, starting from using the babyplus prenatal education system daily during my pregnancy. Reading books to understand the brain development of babies and kids, to learn to teach babies sign language, and even how to teach babies to read and teach babies math! I am always reading something for Alana. I can't wait to put all the info I read into actions and programs for her! I do feel shameful that I am not doing much: only weekly visit to the library story time and bed time stories every night. ...



Anyway, I totally believe that the first six years of everyone's life is the gold age for learning anything! A human brain is the most amazing organ. It's the ONLY container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.

Great! I am going to do my best, to teach her everything I know of, before she enters school. She'll enjoy going to school more if it's not the solely place for academic purpose. I want her to be an independent and life-long learner.

Now, I resume writing my blog to record our learning journey.