thanks for all the comments, great stories to hear! And I will check out your blog astucky, thanks for sharing! Yes, I am not at all concerned something is wrong because she hasn't started reading. Just strange for us as it's new to us. She does know we will read to her either way as we still read with her brother every night and she sees that. He does read by himself a ton too...and he reads to her. It's funny with her letter writing though because DS6 is very factual and logical and will quickly correct her and tell her that those are not real words, just the starting sounds. Sometimes that makes her even more sure of herself and want to do it more to bother him I think, and then other times she tries to change it. She will ask how to spell words sometimes and spell them all out...and if I asked her how to spell some easy words she generally can (cat/sat/hat). She does like to play with letters like that but I should break out the magnets again...I put them away on a day when I was overwhelmed with all the kids stuff everywhere.
When we read books and I pause she says the next word (if she knows the book) but that is just memorization (of course I laugh saying this because that is what we thought with her brother who was reading by 20 months old...we were convinced it was all memorization until someone informed us he could read and we tested the theory).
How funny how different they are! Better run...time to paint some pumpkins with the kiddos.
