After teaching Henry the ABCs and watching Signing Time every day when he was a baby, I got burned out with it because that lady sings so horribly, so I didn't even take the time to teach Bea her alphabet which I now regret because it's taking a long time to teach her right now. Clementine, however, is at the perfect age to learn the alphabet. They both sit and watch a new ABC show once per day called
Meet the Letters that is only slightly less annoying, but teaches both upper and lower case letters. I also supplement with my own knowledge of the letter signs so we don't have to watch Signing Time too much. It has been about a month since we started with this show and they claim that after two months, "babies and toddlers will have complete upper and lower case letter recognition" and so far I think Clementine knows a little less than half of her letters and can recognize both upper and lower case in some letters, so I'm impressed. She seems to be learning even faster right now and there's nothing she likes more than to open books and look and point to the letters she knows. I can tell she feels really great about herself that she knows something. She also tries to sign the letters but doesn't have the dexterity to do many of them yet, but it's really cute to see her flashing what really looks like baby gang signs. lol. She also loves to sign the animals, especially bird, dog, zebra, tiger, lion, elephant, penguin, and giraffe. The most adorable sign she does is butterfly while she says, "fly". I just love the sparkle in her eye as she communicates with me. She just beams with knowledge! I love you my darling girl.
