Story telling Renzo and his first "Spelling Test"

Recently Renzo has turned into a little chatterbox (well he's always been one indeed), and he's definitely getting more expressive day by day.

Okay I promised Daddy Chan that I am going to keep this post short as I noticed that my posts are getting longer and longer when I attempt to cover as much information as possible in every post.

So, long story short.. Instead of just repeating video scripts, Renzo has picked up a new skill - Story telling in his own words!!

Story 1: 3 Little Pigs
He built a big house which is almost at his height using lego blocks, and put "3 babies" (3 small plastic monkey figurine toys) inside the house, and start telling us: "Give you some bricks, build house. Three little pigs go into the house, then no more pigs. And big bad wolf blow and blow, later the house fall down!".

Story 2: Little pig eating apple
He saw an apple on his coloring book and started his story: "Pig eat apple. Oinky (name of the little pig from Dora DVD) is eating apple at the tree top, Oinky throw apple, then Oinky fall down. And Dora catch Oinky with a net!".

And many more.. alright his stories are not just about pigs, he talks about baby blue bird, Dora and Boots, chocolate tree, sheep seeing doctor (from some Chinese story books), etc..

We also noticed that Renzo has learned how to spell his name from his granny.
So last night, we tested him randomly on some simple 3 letter words for the very first time and managed to video that done. It's not perfect for sure as we've never taught him how to spell words, he figured that out through blending phonic sounds and what we've noticed is that, he seems to be very confident with first letter sound and pretty okay with last letter sound also, without the need for us to separately read the phonic sound of each letter one by one, but for the middle sound, it's quite a challenge still =)