April 15th.....LACY READS!!!!!!!

What an exciting morning we had at our house! Lately, Lacy has been so consumed with what words spell and working on sounding things out. She has always been a big book and numbers girl, so it was not super surprising that she started understanding the concept of putting sounds together to make words. The main problem is that Lacy does not know all of her lower case letters. So finding words that are written in all caps are hard to find. However she was rummaging through her baby sister's room this morning and found the wooden blocks stashed away. She brought one to me and asked me "Mommy what does this spell?" So, I told her to say the letter sounds and was fully expecting after she said each letter sound, I would need to put the sounds together faster so she could hear the word the letters were forming. But, she said each letter sound then squealed, "YAK! It spells yak, Mommy!!" We were both so excited we ran in and woke up daddy to show him Lacy's big accomplishment:) So, now we will focus on lower-case letters and we will see where that takes her! I do have to add that I think a big help in Lacy getting to this point were two Leapfrog products. The fridge phonics that we got for Lacy when she turned one(we kept them on the floor while she was little due to coordination), and then for Christmas we got her their video "Letter Factory" which uses the same letter song in the video, teaching the letters and their sounds. This weekend we are picking up "Word Factory" to keep the momentum going! YAY LACY!! Lacy 2 years, 8 months.