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[flea]

Dillo has so much going on in his brain right now. When he yells MOOOOOM! at 5am and I go snuggle him, he lies next to me whispering things like "ssss, ssss, tttt, tttt, stop." Or counting the syllables in words, or the sounds. He knows most of the letters and what they look like in capital and lower case, and most of their basic sounds. He knows his numbers. That's all not unusual for his age (4, in PreK where they are working on this stuff) but the extent to which he is actively aware of letters and numbers around him (looking at the clock and reading the numbers) and going through them in his head is new to me - Casper wasn't like this at this age.

He "read" me the book Hug by Jez Alborough last night. ("Read" because Hug has three words in it: hug, Bobo, and Mommy.) We also looked at a bit of "Swing, Otto, Swing." We played with the name Bobo, making it Gogo and Vovo and JoJo and Zozo. He loves to play these games. It's nice.

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[fatoudust]

One of our little do's processes everything verbally like that. It's a) very charming and b) helpful to an instructor, because it's really clear what he's learning and how. But there is nothing to warm the cockles of a piano teacher's heart like a six year old sitting at a keyboard saying, "And it's...let's see...G!" Yes it is, little do, yes it is.