Last year we posted some video of Mason singing his ABCs and he has since continued to love signing it over and over and if you start singing and stop anywhere in the alphabet he will pick up and continue until the end. Back on January 3rd (the last day of Grandma and Grandpa's latest visit) Mason surprised them by reading the letters off of his wooden blocks.
Those same blocks have both letters and numbers on them and it didn't take long before he mastered identifying (and reading aloud) all 26 letters and numbers 1-9.
Ethan jumped on the letter and number bandwagon and now can consistently identify at least 2/3 of the alphabet and knows the rest of the letters, but sometimes gets confused between E/F, C/G, etc. He can now identify all of the numbers 1-9 on a fairly consistent basis (though the way that a one is written in different ways can throw him for a loop). Ethan is also saying his numbers from 1-10 but sometimes skips over the 7 and 8 - he gets excited to get to 9 and 10! (which is always said with great enthusiasm).
They can both read aloud letters when I write them on their magnadoodles and they have started reading them off of other objects - like the TV "S-O-N-Y" and my mug "N-O-R-T-H-E-A-S-T-E-R-N" and they like to spot letters in signs and posters.
Now we are working on the sounds that these letters make so we can turn all of this letter identification into some reading! I am encouraged that we could possibly have some early readers. My dad and cousin were early readers (by 3). I was not a very early reader and neither was Brett, but maybe those genes will just filter through us and go straight to the boys.
Here are 2 videos that we took to document this for the boys. I warn you though they are both about 3-4 minutes long and you might be bored after the first minute, but we are posting them anyway because we know the grandparents will be glued to the screen! :)
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