The big news in Annabel's life is her emerging literacy. She's been getting better with her letters for several months now and Kristin and I both knew that reading was just around the corner.
It's starting to happen now. Yesterday after dinner, Kristin asked "Do you think we should give them some C-O-O-K-I-E-S after dinner?". She spelled out cookies so that you-know-who wouldn't catch on. Annabel immediately jumped in:
"What did you spell?" She asked
Kristin looked over at me. We exchanged amazement and then Kristin said:
"If you can sound it out, I'll tell you" said Kristin.
What followed was an excruciating five minutes that frustrated us as much as it did Annabel as she tried to sound it out letter by letter. Cookies, it turns out, is a rather hard one. Finally, she got to: "Cah" "Ew" "Cah" "EE" "ESS". And with a little help she got the word and everyone had a cookie to celebrate.
For the time being, I think we can still use the tried and true "spell it out" method, but its days are clearly numbered.
