Well, some of you wont be surprised to hear her latest skill. She has known what sounds each of her letters made for months and months, but beyond getting her to tell me that “cat” was the letters c-a-t and telling me the individual sounds, she never really got stringing it all together and recognizing the word. I will admit that she is so darn smart already that I let it go for a while, and hadn’t tried in several months to get her to read a word. So imagine my surprise when I hear Jake writing words with her on the magnadoodle and her reading them! She would sound the letters out and then happily say the word, so proud of herself. I nearly fell over. She can read your beginner words like cat, bat, mat, sat; sad, mad; dog, log, and many more. More surprising is that she can sound out words like glad, look, book, pup, moon, and more. She likes to tell me that two o’s makes the sound “oo” so I won’t forget… and she can spell words for you without looking at the letters too by sounding them out a bit. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I am so proud of her and so excited because of my love of reading (which started at an early age as well)… this is the beginning of lifelong adventure through books and it is a blessing to watch her face light up as she starts out.