Literacy

Eddie is starting to be able to recognize his name. He can recognize a few letters, especially O and I, and when we write out the letters E-D-D-I-E, he says "Eddie!"

Lately he is very excited to read stories about bears. He points at our bookshelf and requests "Bears, bears." If we don't act quickly, he will pull out one of our adult books and assert that it is about bears. (Even though we cleared out the lower shelves, he can reach a lot of our books now.) We don't have too many books about bears, so sometimes we read one about something else. Then he seems to say "That was pretty good—but no bears. Two stars."

Today Mommy sat in the chair at the end of the table, which we don't usually use. But when Nonno visits, he uses that chair. Eddie remembers this—when Mommy sat there, he said "Nonno's chair! Nonno's chair!" Then he went to the other chairs and reminded us how they are supposed to go: "Mommy's chair, Eddie's chair, Papa's chair."

Speaking of relatives, Eddie has been talking about Uncle Bo even since our trip. His first words of the new year were "Uncle Bo, Uncle Bo." Sometimes he uses his little wooden phone to call Uncle Bo and tell him about the day.