Farah's mazhalai.

Farah's first words was "daddy". she used to call me daddy and her father also as daddy. i would beg her to call me amma or mummy whichever is easier for her. We always spoke Tamil around her and repeat each sentence in English, just to make her aware that there are two different way of sounding any thing. she always grasped English better.

Her second word was "spoo" pointing to spoon. Then it was raining words all day. Now she speaks non stop for hours. Not everyone can understand her, except me and her dad. Her favorite phrase as a baby was "NO". Then it became "I CAN DO IT MYSELF" which was also the first book that she memorised. Now it is "WHAT'S THAT?"

Farah Loves reading books. Her favorite book was a Cookie monster book.she has read it a thousand times literally. Farah could identify all the alphabets, lower case and upper case by the time she was 15 months. she could identify about 6 shapes and count up to 20. the one thing i struggled with her was the colors. I almost thought she was color blind. :) When i finally thought that i would leave the color lessons out for a while, she started telling them right.

When she was less than a year old, her favourite toy was just books. it was books books books all the time. she never used to repeat anything we said, but suddenly one fine day she woke up and started to tell about 100 words in a book.We were so amazed.Masha Allah!