My Baby Can Read!!

I had three people ask me today if Sophie Le and Julianne are the same age. Sophie Le thinks it is nuts when people ask that :o) I am pretty sure they are asking because the girls are very close to the same height. I am thinking before the summer is over, Julianne will surpass Sophie Le in height. I am not sure how Sophie Le is going to take it. She takes great pride in being the taller of the two and refers to it often. {Side note: they are 21 months apart.}


Somewhere along the way, Sophie Le has learned to write all of her letters. For about a month or two, she has been writing several words such as: Mommy, Daddy, Hillary Ash, JuJu, Jonah, Sophie Le Thiet Arnold and I love you. A few nights ago, Sophie Le was asking me how to spell a word. I was doing something else (I think loading the dishwasher) and without thinking twice, I started telling her how to spell it with the letter sounds instead of the letters...that is what I do with Hillary Ashton. I think the word was birthday. After she wrote it, she said, "look mama, I wrote it all by myself." I looked and sure enough she did! I was so surprised. I didn't know she knew all of her sounds.

So today, I wrote a few words on a piece of paper and showed her how to sound the words out. It didn't take her long before she was able to do it herself!

The first word she read was hot. I will never forget it. So sweet. She then said, "hot like we need a hottub." Smart girl...on so many levels :o) The second word was "bun." She said, "bun, like 'I've got buns, hun.'" Haha! Nature vs Nurture. I think we got a bit of both...haha!

Now I am off to try to find something to get pink, chalkboard paint out of Jonah's pants, shirt and shoes. Any ideas?