I'll confess I am totally useless at remembering any of this; I was too busy trying not to forget the diaper bag and remembering to do the laundry. I do remember that DS read his first sign, "exit," at 23 months. He became obsessed with signs and read them a lot, but never picked up a book. Then at 5y6m he started reading Narnia books completely on his own. We skipped all the early readers and easy fiction because he never sat still long enough to read a book, and, i suspect, there was not enough plot to capture his attention.
When you say chapter books, does that mean Magic Tree House or Harry Potter? I have always been confused by that term since many pretty easy book and some very hard (like War and Peace) are all chapter books.
I also remember that at 6y2m, he spontaneously figured out how to multiply to find area. Until then, I didn't know he knew how to multiply at all!
As I said, I'm pretty useless.
