READING!!

Well, we begin another exciting phase!! Zachary is reading! It is so crazy to watch your kid discover something new he can do.
We tried several different techniques that probably all contributed their own little bit to him being able to accomplish this goal. But, what clicked today was this.
The Doodle Pro.
I randomly picked it up and wrote the word "cat," which he knows, no problem.
I said, "What word is this?"
He said, "cat!"
I said, "Yep. What if I change the 'c' to a 'b'? What word is it now?"
I erased the 'c' and put a 'b.'
He stared for a second and yelled "bbbbbb....at!"
I almost fell over.
So we spent the next half hour changing the first letter over & over. I probably went through the alphabet several times, just to see if he had consistency.
We stopped with "sat" for a minute and I asked him if he wanted to get a little crazy(!).
Then I changed the middle letter.

The Doodle Pro has this sliding magnet that lets you erase just a portion of the picture, so it was super easy for me to just erase the first letter and then change it right there while he was watching.

Here he is "sounding out" the "a" in "sat."

Then he just showed off for Daddy at dinner time. I threw him for a loop and changed the middle letter to "o" as well as "u" and he had no trouble doing those.

In other news, he also now spells & writes two words on his own.