Amazed and proud

Gatito comes from a family of early readers. My sister learned to read at 2.5 and I was a relatively late bloomer at 3.5. My older nephew learned around 2.5 as well.

We haven’t been specifically teaching Gatito to read. We read to him daily. We sing the ABCs all the time. We draw and talk about letters sometimes. He’s learned the sounds all of the letters make mostly because of this thing. But trust me: we haven’t been grilling him or teaching him or asking him to sound out words or anything.

This morning, A was reading Gatito a new book and got to a page with a huge NO. Gatito said, “N-O spells No!” Amazed, A wrote “no” on another piece of paper, and he read it again. When we got home tonight, he read YES, SI, MOM, and DAD.

He is two years, two months, and two weeks old.

He was so pleased with himself. I could see the gleam in his eye. And when I read him his story tonight, I could tell something was different. He realized that all those letters made words that I was reading to him. I can’t wait to see what happens next!