Hammie’s Way of Telling a Story

I was in the middle of writing some articles for a client when Hammie was getting some books from their cabinet. He was tossing them one by one on the foam and I was asking him what he will do with them. He said that he will read them so I just went on with my work. Then he sat on the foam and Louie followed.


Hammie then started reading his books. Oh, he wasn’t reading them literally but he was reading them from memory. I can catch words I can understand though some words are made up meaning baby talk. Louie also picked a book and mimicked his kuya and read along also on baby language. Hammie read about seven books in his own words including the alphabet book where he recognized almost all the pictures. 


As he was near me doing that, I have to stop writing and turned to listen to him read his books. I was simply fascinated at my son reading from memory and being creative about it. On the alphabet book, he would make sounds when the picture is of an animal. While reading a Thomas and friends book he would put in words like ‘run Percy run’ though it was not in the original story. I smiled and laughed at his creativity and he would also laugh along. 


He would go through every page of each book making up a story depending on the pictures that he sees. Louie stopped reading and was now listening to his kuya going through the pages. I was just delighted that Hammie is getting into reading and I hope Louie would too as he has a shorter attention span than Hammie. I pray that his copying his kuya is not just a phase. 


Every time Hammie finishes a book he would say ‘the end’ the way I say it when I finished reading a story to him and Louie. It was a sight to behold and I wanted to catch that on camera only to remember that the memory card was with my husband to get some pictures. Oh well, time to write it down so I can read this all over again and smile after reading.