I had inklings with my dd9 when she was 7 months old. She would never sit on my lap so that the book was on my legs. She sat on my lap facing me with the book on my chest (I felt like a talking easel! lol) She would insist that I point to the words as I read them. She would watch the book and my mouth with intensity. This was the only way she would read with me until she started reading on her own at around 18 months. Then she would sit as most kids do, BUT she would point to the words and read the ones she knew.
Her other interesting trick was at 12 months, she would dump ALL of her wooden puzzles, then line them up and put them together (she had as many as 6 at a time.) Then after she did it, she would try to close her eyes and try it again!
DD2 was just busy busy busy. She loved to take things apart. She was a bit more secretive about her abilities. We did not know that she could read until we caught her reading a book to her stuffed animals around age 3!
