Surprise, surprise

For the last 20+ months or so, we've spent the better part of our free time reading to our daughter, who is now 20+ months old (I don't want to do the math). Reading to her, taking care to show/say her letters and numbers to her, shapes, colors, objects, etc. Until recently, it seemed to be to no avail... then she slowly started to recognize her numbers, and we got excited.

But she never seemed to remember them with any consistency, until suddenly one night she started bringing us numbers and telling us what they were. It was very cool, and of course we were proud.

But tonight, well, tonight was a good night. She has these magnetic letters on the refrigerator that pop into a base that says the letter and what sounds it makes. She's played with it since Christmas, but we never really thought she was getting it until tonight. She started grabbing letters, saying what they were, and then putting them in the base and making it say the letters.

To go one step further, we started asking her to find letters... and she was fairly impossible to stump! It was amazing... she knew almost every letter, and could find them on the refrigerator where they were upside down and out of order.

Her lexicographical evening complete, she is now sleeping peacefully.

I declare today, Sunday May 6 to be alphabet day!

-The Krunchy Krab