Max Reading

Sun., Oct 22

I guess it's not surprising.  Max has know that capital letters for his name since he was just over a year old.  He could recognize Reid's name from not long after that.  He knows that "Mini-car" starts with an M, and that Chance starts with a "C".  He knows a V is for "Vo-Vo" (Grandpa), and he knows that P is for Police Car.  O is for Oscar.

But after that things get fuzzy, and he hasn't shown much interest.  Sometimes he remembers what MOM or DAD look like.  He loves calling it a zero, and then an O (ohh). 

This weekend we were coming home from visiting Papa Bob up in a cabin in the woods, and I stopped at a gas station, and Max did something completely new (to me at least).  He said  "Those are the letters for Ice Cream".  I looked out the window expecting to see a big picture of an icecream cone, but I didn't see one, so I said "where", and he said "way over there" and pointed to an ICE machine.  You know that kind that sells ice at gas stations across the country?  With NO picture anywhere of Ice Cream as a visual clue. 

As far as Chrsitine and I know this is the first time he's recognized a word, other than a name of a friend just by the shapes of the letters alone.

Very cool.  I explained to him that word is ICE and that they sell ice there, and ICE is the first word in Ice Cream. 

The odd thing is the place we usually go for Ice Cream is a chocolate shop up-town, and I don't think they say "ICE CREAM" in all capital letters anywhere.  I could be wrong, but I just don't know where he's learned to recognize that shape, but it's cool.

 
And I guess it figures that Pepere's great-grand child's can recognize the word Ice Cream, before any other word... :)