There is not enough space to breathe with awe each time this little person does something absolutely different from his brilliant brother, Jacob. It is our fault that we sometimes take him lightly because he can make things look groovy and rock n'roll when we are serious over things that are actually funny. He makes us realize things differently.
A year ago, before his Kuya's 5th birthday, he surprised me with his uncanny way of "reading".
I gave Jacob the first letter clue to the gift I was going to give him while we all lay on the bed ready to sleep. Jose was seeminglyl unmindful of our conversation.
Me: My gift for you starts with the letter "h" (and I sounded the letter).
Jacob urged me to say the next letter and I said "a" then the third which was "m". As I gave the sounds of the three letters for Jacob to figure out, Jose turned to his other side to face us and nonchalantly, said "ham-ster".
This dude is not a conventional reader. He never paid any attention to the first attempts of his teachers and parents to teach him how to read, the way he was not paying attention to colors before he started on his own to identify the spectrum of colors.
He baffled us many times whenever he'd come up with puns. Ordinary words were given a new twist and a funny meaning.
"Wear your brief now Jose"!
"Corned brief?" he'd retort.
Anyways, laterly, he baffles me with his different approach in drawing. While he gingerly plays with a pencil and tentatively makes marks on a paper, his imagination would start to work as he sees the figure that emerges. You can imagine how a snake would evolve into a robot with more angles that he would accidentally draw. Really. Not much ado!
Today, his left hand and fingers are more coordinated with his eyes and his brain. He is very happy to draw a lot! he can now summon his hand to create what is on his mind.
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He can go on and on tranced and impassioned.
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