Alphabet

December has been a bad blogging month for me.  I've had plenty I wanted to write about, but most of those things deserved pictures to go along with the words.  But I have been a little focused on other things in my spare time (like finding a better cloth diaper detergent, because the one I picked just does NOT work for us... and I have 3 bottles of it), so uploading pictures to my computer has been at the end of my list of things to do.

SO, here is one post that should have been up a couple of weeks ago.  Better late than never:


A few weeks ago, when Noah was just over 20 months old, he started pointing to letters and telling me what they were.  I believe his very first letter was E, followed closely by S, P, T, etc.  I was kind of flabbergasted, because we didn't have any alphabet toys or puzzles or books.  And I didn't spend any time teaching him his letters.  I think he picked it up from watching Super Why, a show all about reading and letters.  He loves that show.  He might actually like it better than Elmo, which is saying a lot.

He kept reading letters off of our shirts, or on the front of a book, or on our computers.  We'd tell him a new letter, and he wouldn't forget it.  So while I was running errands, I kept my eye out for some alphabet-focused activities.  I found the Baby Einstein Alphabooks during a quick Winners run.  It's a small box that has 26 books in it, one for each letter of the alphabet.

Each individual books has three pages of picture/word combos.

I only took pictures of two.  I don't know why.

Not once did I initiate playing with these books, but within two or three days Noah knew the entire alphabet.  At 20.5 months, he knew the entire alphabet.  Completely unprompted.  You don't have to ask him where "A" is, or where "N" is.  He can just point to any letter, in any order, and say exactly what letter it is.

And that's not all.  He also knows many of the letter sounds.  What sound does P make?  Puh, puh, puh.  T, K, S, B, D... he knows about a third of the sounds of the alphabet.  And if I don't keep asking him what he knows, he says "More?!  More?!"

So, he knows all his colours, he knows all his letters... now I guess he needs to stop counting "Two, two, two..."  

Although I really think that is adorable.  I won't be trying to change that anytime soon:)

Oh, as a side note, in the past couple of weeks Noah has started to imitate The Count from Sesame Street.  It's hilarious.  "ONE!  Ah ah ahhh... TWO!  Ah ah ahhh..."  Justin finds this especially awesome.