The Firefighter Boots

Kade, our second child, can be so funny sometimes.  He's only 2, and he's really talking a lot now.  You'd be amazed on how good he's at when it comes to identifying objects.  The only thing funny about him is, naming footwear.  Whatever he learned from watching their kiddie shows, he associates them pretty much with everything that looks similar to what he has seen.

Take for instance, his Papa's JOE ROCKET BOOTS, he calls them "Firefighter boots".

One afternoon, when my husband got home from doing errands and was taking off his boots (the kids and I were at the table having snack), Kade saw him and said, "Look, those are Papa's Firefighter boots!"  We didn't get what he was talking about, till he said it again, this time, pointing at his father's pair of boots.  The way he said it actually made us laugh.  Not in a making-fun-of-him way, but because it sounded so innocent and cute.  Sometimes, he'd even call his Papa, a Firefighter, just because of those boots.  Anything that looks like boots, to him, they are the same. 

They have watched this episode on Barney, where they took the kids to a fire station to meet Firefighters and learn about their job, and I'm guessing, that's where he got it from.  No matter how many times we sit there and correct him, he'd insist that they are what he calls the Firefighter boots.  We gave up!  (Hehehe)  For now, we'll let him be.  Anyway, he's not saying it wrong.  We know that he'll learn eventually.

My Little Boys are Learning Tagalog!

No words, honestly, can ever express how happy and proud I am of my little boys, Kai and Kaden! Not only are they learning Tagalog words, they can now sing two lines from a Tagalog Christmas song that they just heard playing on YouTube.  The amazing part is, I really didn't teach them the words of the song. They learned them on their own. But of course, I would correct them if they said the word incorrectly, but that's about it.  I'm teaching them the "Bahay Kubo" song as well.  And it's so cute listening to them singing with their little American accent. (Hehehe.)

Our boys taken at the outlet store in Oklahoma City in July during our trip

Teaching my children how to speak and understand my language (Tagalog) has been my goal, too even before we had them.  And it will be an accomplishment for me if I end up being successful.  No offense, but as much as possible, I don't want my children to not at least understand or speak a few Tagalog words like the other kids (half Filipino half American, or even pure Filipino) here in the US.  I have met some and talked to them so I know.  I don't have anything bad against them.  All I'm saying is, it would have been better if they knew how to talk in Tagalog and can actually understand it, too at the same time.  I mean, after all, they're still Filipinos.

Perfect example is, my cousin.  He was born and is residing here in the US.  My mother told me that when they went home last May, he often would get bored because nobody would dare talk to him because of the language differences.  He couldn't understand Tagalog, and my cousins could not really speak English fluently.  So most of the time, he was left all by himself while the rest hung out together and were having fun.  Now, that's something I would not want my kids to go through.