tonight owen and i were doing his alphabet puzzle (upper and lower case letters that fit into slots). as he was putting the letters in their places, i was asking him what each letter said. for the most part, he could tell me. this i knew was in his abilities. the next thing i tried was giving him a letter sound and having him show me the letter, which quickly progressed to making short words based on phonetics. he did amazingly well. i just sat back and watched as he quickly found the correct letter. there are a few he has trouble hearing the difference between, but for the most part, they are very close in sound (long 0 and r for one) other words were spelled phonetically (cat/kat). he really has this pretty solidly. we did it for 5-10 minutes, at which point he grew tired of it and started playing with his blocks. oh, and he knows how to spell/recognize two words so far. owen and open.
in 6 very short days, my baby will be 3 years old. i marvel at all of the things he can do now that he couldn't do a year ago. yesterday as we were going to j's sister's house to watch the football game (ugh...our team didn't even show up.) o saw an "open" sign. he spelled it out for us. i asked him what it spelled and he told us. "uh-oh" i thought. other skills that my almost-3 year old has include good verbal skills and the ability to tell us what he wants and be understood most of the time, he is sleeping in his big boy bed without rails, going potty all the time (save sleeping times), we can have a conversation with him, he likes playing games, and will talk on the phone with people. he can count past 30 (and to 10 in spanish), recognizes all of his letters (upper case, lower case, and sign language), and generally blows me away with all of those unexpected things he does. i can only imagine where he'll be in a year.
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