We started working on reading again this week and Emma is now getting it!!! I can’t tell you how happy this makes both of us. She is now understanding that she can combine the sounds together to form words. Today she read part of the first Bob Book and I about cried.

Now we have to focus on having her read the words, rather than just making up stories about the pictures. :-) It is rather funny - I think she thinks the words in the book are too simple, so she wants to come up with much more elaborate descriptions of the people and actions. She seems a little disappointed by the words when she figures them out - that is, once she got past the initial amazement that she was actually reading the words.