Matthew is in the pre-reading stage: this is the period where a child pretends to read his or her favorite book, but cannot identify the words. Recently, Matthew has become fond of picking up papers or books and telling us what it says. Running his finger across the page he recites the contents, or at least what he thinks it should be. On one notable occasion he took a list from my hand and read: "Make chocolate cake. Then, go and eat it." Of course, we subsequently made chocolate zucchini cake for the family and ate it!
Now that Aaron has mastered crawling, he has taken on other challenging skills such as language acquisition. Why is it that my children's first intelligible sounds are "dada?" After all, I'm the one who is getting up throughout the night, changing diapers, and cleaning up after them. Despite this, "bah-bah-bah-dada" is music to our ears!
