I have been trying to collect all Bubbles' little funny sayings.  She is growing so fast that soon the days of "Bubble-isms" will be gone.  She says so many funny things these days, I soon won’t be able to remember them all.  So here is her latest collection.

 

She calls a Merry-go-round a “merry-go-Around”.

 

She calls Malaysia “Uh-laysia”.  Her best friend Valencia is "Uh-lencia", and her sister and brother's friends Nathanael and Natasha are...you guessed it..."Uh-thanael" and "Uh-tasha".  Another friend at the playground is "Mat-alie" (Natalie) and her teacher at school is Teacher Lancy (Nancy).

 

She sings, “Blah, blah, black sheep, where are you?” instead of “Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?”

I heard her singing, “The wise man built his house upon a box…” the other day.

Bubbles brings such joy to my days.  She's recently started swimming lessons, and while she no longer calls her goggles "gobbles", she enters into her lessons with everything she's got.  It's so fun to watch her jump up and launch herself full-length across the water, kicking and paddling with everything she's got.  When she tires, she stops, stands up, catches her breath, and launches off again.  What an unaffected zest for life she has!

We've been working on some Scripture memory for her Sunday school class lately, and, as with everything else in life, she's trying so hard to learn those verses. 

We've also begun working our way through "Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons".  (I found it at a second-hand bookstore for S$14.95.  When I've been able to find it in local bookstores, it runs around S$50 brand new, so I was really excited over my find!)

Oh, does she want to learn to read!  The other day, we visited a Christian book store and she came to me with a book she wanted to get.  I took it from her to have a look at what she had chosen.  It said on the cover, "Children's Bible Stories" so I figured it was another children's Bible story picture book....no sirree!  This book was all text, the thickness of a regular Bible (a good 2-3 inches thick!), and not a single picture--not even a black and white sketch!  This is the kind of book she can't wait to read!

Meanwhile, she's been "reading" her Beginner's Bible at night before bedtime.  She will look at the pictures and tell herself the story.  It's not that there's no one to read to her, but she wants so desperately to do it herself!

Already, after only 8 lessons in "Teach Your Child To Read...", she's getting the hang of sounding out words.  Today, looking for a workbook page to do, she was able to sound out enough letters of three words (Zip, Zero, and Zebra) to be able to match the words to their respective pictures.  (At first, she did think zip was pizza, but considering the word pizza has all the letters in the words zip, and she's a lefty who tends to work right to left at times, and I didn't even know she would know the word pizza, I was pretty impressed!)  Of course, she's also learning basic phonics (the letter sounds) at kindergarten, so I must give credit where it is due.

I am so thankful for this little girl who is teaching me joy, and renewing my enthusiasm for life.