Satisfying

Sladjana loves becoming literate - we've got about 50 flashcards that we refer back to. She has even come up with her own game, where we lay out the flashcards, and then read on to her and she finds it. I think she senses that this will open up new doors for her. I told her she would be reading Suess to me before the end of the month. I sometimes put a few cards together into a sentence, and she just amazes me.

Though, I heard my father was working with her this morning, and he pronounced "would" in pure serbian ('vuddh'), so we'll have to work with such distractions.

Kristina is not quite ready yet. She picks a word of the day (one from our list, mind you) and guesses that for every card that we flash her. One night it was "cow", another night "to". She's the type who is ingesting all of this, and one day, when our guard is down, she will just start using it.

To keep it at Kristina's level, I have her spell the word back from the card, and then Sladjana reads it. Sometimes, Sladjana is in another room, and still yells the right word back to us.

When Sladjana was born, I kept telling my wife I how wanted to get into her head, and see what she was thinking. Now, I find that watching her and her sister 'learn', and together at that, is much more satisfying.