What Thamizhini Knows!!!

What Thamizhini knows.... She knows lots of things... yeah! Lots of Animals and Birds, lots of Objects, Colors and  Rhymes! Generally kids want to stay occupied on one or the other thing and they need more fun pastime. Thamizhini once started walking, we were not able to control her inside the house. As basically she has much interest in seeing books and also she handles books very nicely, turns each page as a Pro.

One day when I was bored at home(six months back), I thought of hanging some charts to her. So whenever she is bored, she can simply look at it. And my basic intend was, she will not simply  disturb others! The charts were hung in a way that she can look into that from any where and from any position :P But this little tot had trick. She always wants one or the other to carry / lift her and show the chart. Grr..... Yeah. And she will not get satisfied with one or two charts. She had to see all of them and then only she will be ready to get down from us. Spare a minute to think about us. :D

Check out the below video to know what she knows. I'm very happy at least these charts made her to remember the things what she sees every day!

I like the way how she tells "Yesch Pappa", "Up above..(Twinkle...)" and "Thiruppi kettal Poochai" from Dosai amma Dosai! She remembers all the rhymes and tries to tell whenever we sing for her. If any one wants to know what she sings, they must be knowing what rhyme it is.. Got it????

The Real Perfectionist

Thamizhini likes to draw with her "Pink Magnetic Writing Slate Board" always. Sometimes she ask every one at home to draw something. And even we like to do some drawing, as it is very easy to use and very much easier to erase it. :-)

Check out the below video, how Thamizhini uses it. She knows where to keep the pen and how to use the eraser. My real perfectionist.

Reading Books

I have already written about her fondness on books and how she likes to see / read her books.  As I said earlier, there is no timing for it. And any body can take the book and show for her. It is not necessarily me or his Dad. Her grandparents can also show her books and tell her what it is. 

Reading is my passion

As of now she has many books and she knows almost all the books names. It may not be the exact name of the book but we have put some small names to it.

she has lengthy list of books, namely:

1) Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you see (We say just Brown Bear book)

2) Nursery Rhymes with CD and music notes with it. (Kakka Book, as crow is there)

3) My Pretty Board-Books: Animals And Birds (Animals)

4) Pre school Activities (anna book as anna do cycling in this book)

5) Fruits ( same as the name)

6) Flowers (Poo Book)

Kakka kanom... bye bye!!!

and she has Snoozers, Chikka Chikka Boom Boom, King Geroge, Lord Indra and some of Barbie's book. But these are all yet to start reading as it is bit thin papers compared to that hard books :P Yeah, I'm worried! Even though we don't spend much time for these books, she knows some of the characters like king, puppy, frog and etc on the books by seeing pictures!

I'm searching my Animals Book

She loves mainly 3 books here: Brown bear, Animals and Preschool activity books. In Animals book, she knows minimum 3 to 4 animal and bird names per page. As she is yet to talk, we ask the name of the animal / bird and she puts her finger on it. 

Check out the attached videos like how she used to sit and read her book. 

If we ask a animal which we have not told her before, she will simply put her finger on any of the animal, but mainly not on the known animal. She never waste a second for showing it to the wrong one, but if she knows she will take some seconds to think / find and show it.

Oh! Book... bye bye....!!!

Sometimes our conversation will be like this and it is very funny to listen her.
Me: Wheres the Animals book?

Thamizhini: (Searches for half a minute and) "bye bye" and shows her hand as not found!

These days this is usual for her, If something is not found or not able to find it out, she says that is gone "bye bye".  

Its weekly magazine....

Sometimes she takes weekly Tamil magazines and ask us to read for her. Whatever it is, she likes to see the pictures on it and we have to say something about the pictures. More importantly, even in the night (or I should say early in the morning) around 3 O' clock, she asks me to get a book and read for her. Just think about me, will I be happy for this?

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Fun time with Daddy

Dads are always famous for rough playing and Nalin is no different from them. He does / tries all the ways to make Thamizhini laugh. He sometimes makes loud and scary noises just to get a mad laugh from her. It is all for ONE reason that he wants to make a tight bond with his daughter. And there's no doubt that our little one is fascinated to see him playing roughly! Check out the video to know how they both play.

These days Thamizhini is much attracted to books. She gets her book in hand and talks something with that. She has "Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you See?" and this is the one, her Dad must read to her whenever she wants. Because the book is very much Picture Perfect and It is made up of bold colored collage of animals.

I'm Born with this book!

She likes to see Green Frog, Gold Fish and White Dog much. Her dad asks questions like "Where's the dog?" or "Where's the eyes of Frog?" and shows her where it is. So next time when we move to the same page, she voluteriley tells us the parts that we have shown her last time. There is Gold Fish in the book and we taught her like "inge oru fish and ange oru fish" by showing our hand to the neighbors house as they have small fish tank. Thamizhini use to see that whenever we cross the house. So next time when she sees the Fish in book, she used show her hand to the neighbors house too! Yeah! she remembers it!

Appa, See long legs...!!!

Also her Daddy plays differently from me, so Thamizhini enjoys more and she knows that each one has their own play styles and she expects as per that. Whatever it is, but I can say that Thamizhini enjoys reading, whether we sit down with a picture book or read the same book over and over again.

Amma, tell me what story you want, I will read for you!!!

Sometimes she alone takes some book, sees picture on her own and tell about the picture to us. We always try to capture these kinda moments, but she never caught in! Anyhow check out the below video

Checking Astrology!

Yeah! Thamizhini started seeing Astrology! Whoever wants to know their future, can approach Thamizhini with their horoscope! Check out the video for more details! 

Hmm... In fact we were very happy to see her patience while looking at the book and when turning the pages. She was able to hold the book properly and she turns the pages as a Pro. And she searches some pages and looks deeply in to the page as she is actually spending time to Read. Book worm!!!