31 in 17

I took this video to show my sister how much Katrina loves the Bible she got her (thanks sis !)

In this video, Katrina named 31 major Biblical characters in 17 seconds. (She's done it faster but I don't always have a camera around.) Katrina's one of those who likes to flip to the end of a book before reading the first page. She quickly found this page and made me name 'em them all for her. She memorized all of it flawlessly after reading through them maybe 3-4 times.

She even has all the faces matched up to the names so well that she would happily announce the name of the new character ("yay, Solomon !") as soon as she sees a picture as we flip to a new page.

I'm sure her love of this Bible has a lot to do with the extremely well done artwork (it's really very cute), but this girl still amazes me all the time. (I'll be very happy if my memory is half as good as hers nowadays)

Speed Reading

Words of wisdom

When Katrina was learning to speak in Chinese, she picked up everything so fast that we never had to teach her anything word by word. With Nathan, (the experts are right when they say boys's language skills emerge a little slower), we had to teach him '唔' and '該' separately.

In hearing us teach Nathan, Katrina realizes that some of the 'compound' Chinese words she's been using forever as 'one word' can actually be 'broken apart' and each character can have its only meaning.

Here are her words of wisdom to Nathan: 淨係講個唔字就曳喇,如果加埋個該字,咁就唔曳喇. (即係唔著襪, 唔食嘢, 唔瞓覺 就曳, 但係講唔該就乖喇)