Arjun Loves Learning the Alphabet!

As Arjun is getting older (he turned 18 months this month on the 18th), he is developing quite an interest in learning new things!  He knows many new words, including, "hi", "bye", "ya" when he agrees with you, "Mummy", "Daddy", "again", "come", "come out"(phrase), "ah-nunn" for all done, "shoes" (which he pronounces "choose"), "ah-choo" for choo-choo train, "cracker", "yummy" and he smacks his lips when he finds something tasty (typically sweet food like a cookie or sweet yogurt), "baby", "cat", "meow", "teddy" for teddy bear, "hot"as he holds his hand above a hot dish/bowl with food and proceeds to blow on it, "Ba", "Nani", "Tana" for Tanya, and many more I'm sure.

What's more impressive is that he knows words to songs because he loves singing so much!  For instance, he can sing and enunciate most of the words to "Happy Birthday"  and his current favorite, the "ABCs"!  Arjun is not one for hand gestures so teaching him baby sign language proved to be quite a challenge.  Thus, relying on the words he knows and uses to communicate is very important.  Plus teaching him how to say new words is so much fun!

One of his favorite books right now is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (a favorite of Krish's as well), and that story inspired him to learn the alphabet!  He loves pointing at the letters on the last page of the book with Daddy or me and saying the letter names!  He is actually beginning to recognize some letters such as "A", "B", "C", "O", "P", "Q" and "V" and points to them somewhat consistently!  He does make a mistake every now and then, but it truly is impressive.

We can't believe how eager he is to learn and enjoy every opportunity we get to teach him.  Because of this high interest and love to learn the alphabet he has shown in the past week, we just recently took out the easel for him to practice recognizing various letters.  Even Krish gets excited when he hears Arjun say a new letter for the first time when they are playing together in the Play Room.  "Mommy", Krish will yell running to me, "Arjun just said a new letter!  He said 'B'!" He is such a smart little boy, and Daddy, Krish Bhai and I couldn't be prouder of him and his enthusiasm to learn!