Learning the Alphabets

It all started quite innocently. I was wearing a Calvin Klein sweatshirt the other day, and Ethan pointed out the big 'K' on the shirt and said 'Kay!' It was then that I realised he was starting to recognise aphabets. He had probably been learning the alphabets when he played with the leapfrog magnetic toy. You could fit in each letter of the alphabet into the toy and it will sing something like 'Every letter makes a sound and 'K' says 'ke'! What a neat idea. That was probably the best $10 I had spent!



He knows M, A, R, K, E, H, Y now. Not bad, a quarter-way through. We have been trying to reinforce by pointing to every letter we see, and deliberately taking him to McDonald's for lunch so that we can point out the big 'M' to him. Gee.... what kind of parents are we.



It was pretty tough trying to get over the jet-lag. For days, our routine had looked like that: Wake up at 6am, sleep at 3pm, wake up at 12midnight to have dinner, sleep again at 3am. I think we should be over the hardest part by now. Now, we are trying to work on getting Ethan to sleep in his own crib in his bedroom. For the past 2.5 months in Singapore, he had been sharing the bed with us in my parents' house and he was so used to rolling over and kicking warm bodies that he refuses to sleep in his small cold crib now. Maybe we should get him his big-boy bed now, afterall he will be turning 2 next month.