Our Kids

Piper is up to her old tricks again. The other day we were playing in the yard and I decided to write some words in chalk on the wall. I wrote the usual, Mom, Dad, Piper and Lela which they both recognize on site and can spell if they are looking at the letters. Then I decided to write cat, dog, jump, fly and run on the wall. We proceeded to spell them and then a little while later I asked Piper to pick out the word cat and she did and then she spelled it. She did that with all the other words except jump, that one she just pointed out and did not spell. I was pretty impressed, I shot some video and you can see them looking at the words and processing the letters before deciding which one was which. Both girls did the same exercise but about halfway through little Lela started being silly and she was just so darn cute. She has got the smarts but she has got the personality too and I am not sure which one she likes more:)

Today Piper was pointing to words and asking me what they say. They had an italian ice when we were leaving the zoo and Piper asked me what a word was on the wrapper, it was Luigi! LOL! Also when we were driving and stopped at a stop sign she said, “Mommy, that sign says STOP.” She is putting together that words are words and that we read them. Pretty interesting stuff.