Our Little Teacher

Recently, we have been deliberately making mistakes so that R can correct us. It started as a way to make him talk. We noticed that he would respond better when he knew we were wrong. A good way to make him read a page would be by saying "Spot bakes an apple" instead of "Spot bakes a cake". He would literally jump and say "No Mommy, Thats Spot bakes a cake". Occasionally we also get the "C'mon Mommy you can do better" looks as well :).

On one such occasion he surprised daddy. Daddy was trying to get him ready in the morning and R was just not co-operating. So Daddy said "Is there a T in sleep". He looked at Daddy and said "T makes the "Teh" sound. There is no Teh sound in sleep. There is a Teh sound in STOP. Then he spelled out S-T-O-P. And then went on to spell out sleep "S-L-E-E-P'. I am sure he gave the "See, wasn't that easy" expression to Daddy.