Reading at 2

Gabe got this Elmo chair for his birthday and he loves it. It wiggles and giggles when he sits in it and that makes him giggle too. He really has a passion for reading that I'm sure he gets from his father. Books are a big hit with him and he has lots of them on our bookshelf as well as a box full in his bedroom.

He will bring us books and crawl into our laps and say "read" all of the time. Recently, he has found a few that he really enjoys and we've read them so many times with him that he can just about recite them back to us. He is very proud of this and we make a big fuss over him and how smart he is when he does it. (So much so, that he will actually say "mart" now when he does something he thinks we'll be proud of...then he waits for us to agree and tell him how smart we think he is!) See, he is pretty smart, isn't he?

Tonight after bath time, he fished out a book he likes, sat down in his Elmo chair, and began "reading" to us and Gavin. He knew exactly what to say on each page (which he calls "hage") and when to turn the "hage". When he was done he cried "END" loudly!

So, there you have it...Gabe is reading at age 2!