Daphne knows her letters! She also refers to herself as "her".

I feel so horrible that I haven't blogged in so long! I can't believe I haven't posted in a year!

Daphne has learned her letters. She knows how to identify all of them! We don't know exactly how she learned them all--odd, huh!?! One day, I noticed she spent most of her time playing with her frog telephone toy. The telephone frog toy has buttons on which are each individual letter of the alphabet. When one letter is pressed, an animal whose name and species corresponds with the letter that is pressed. For example "K" would be "Kerry the Kangeroo." Emmanuel accidentally noticed that Daphne had memorized the animal that corresponded with each letter. So he would quiz her every so often.

So now, she's able to identify letters when we point to them and ask her what it is. Or we will say a letter and ask her to point it out for us.

She also refers to herself as "her." When she is talking on the phone with people, she will greet them and tell them that she is "her." Whenever I point to pictures of her and ask her to identify herself, she refers to herself as "her." Really odd!

She knows so many words now! Here is a brief list--it isn't very comprehensive:

meat
donut
pants
shirt
socks
shoes
sneakers
sandals
glasses
bath
soap
pillow
cup
plate
spoon
fork
hair tie
comb
T.V.
paper
pen
marker
crayon
messy
dirt
dirty
paper towel
toilet paper
diaper
fall down
help me
please
thank you
more
don't want
Where are you?
Daddy's work!
flying
eating
pretty (she usually uses this word to describe clothing--her own and other people's)
dress
Oops!
Ow!
Stop it! (she uses this when we wash her hair)
Go away! (she uses this whenever we're trying to take her back home from the park)
drawing
walking
park
You okay?
sorry
Help me!
stuck
sleep
goodnight
baby
sister
Lotus (although it sounds as if she's saying "otis")
water
drink
grape juice
banana
apple
orange

There is more, but that is all I can think of right now. She strings these different words together to convey what she wants.

She also knows how to count to 13! When we go for walks, she likes to count the trees. When she sees the moon, she greets it ("Hi, moon! Where is moon? Bye, moon!").

She likes to draw. She primarily like to draw with crayons and markers. She will show us her drawings so we can "ooh" and "ahh" at them!

She's very helpful with the baby. She will retrieve wipes and diapers when I ask her. She really likes this one show on PBS called Super Why! I think it also helped her to learn her alphabet!

Jeez, I really do regret not posting more often. I look back on my last post nearly a year ago, and she has grown so much! She's practically using sentences! I will try my hardest to keep this updated! I really do need to be more consistent when documenting her development!

The following are videos where Daphne refers to herself as "her" and where she is identifying letters. She's only 2 years and 8 months old. I wonder when she'll start reading!