Me: It's a special holiday today, Mather.
Mather: What day is it?
Me: It's St. Patrick's Day, it's a special holiday.
Mather: Do we still go to school today?
Me: Uh, yeah. The special thing about today is that we wear green. Everyone wears something green.
Mather: I want to wear purple.
Thus ended all discussion of St. Patrick's Day.
Tonight-
I'm reading Mather a storytime book while Emily is doodling on Mather's doodler. At the end of the book, Emily turned it to face Mather. She had written five letters on it -- D-A-D-D-Y.
Emily: Do you know what this says, Mather?
Mather: (Confidently) Daddy.
We had not played this game before. This was out of the blue.
I got a little teary.
She went on to successfully read M-A-T-H-E-R and M-O-M-M-Y, but needed help with N-A-N-N-A.
5 comments:
Very sweet. No doubt next she'll try scribbling those same words.
awwwwww ... you're going to have a reader before kindergarten
Wow, that is awesome!
whu? reading at 3 years old?! very impressive!
That is a big milestone. Almost makes me cry as well. Momily started reading street signs and billboards when she was 3- at first I wasn't paying attention and didn't believe it - then she started saying "look-look" and telling me the words she saw.
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