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elenora is doing amazingly well with picking out what letter words start with. when we read books i'll ask her, for example, "what does [Rabbit] start with?" and she will say "R" and point to the word "rabbit" if it is on the page. or we'll play a game where i'll just randomly ask her "what does [blank] start with?" and she will tell me. sometimes during her lunch we'll go through every item on her plate and she will get them all correct. the one she has the most trouble with is telling "K" from a hard "C" sound. but lately she'll say that things like "cup" start with "a hard C."

i'm so impressed by her.

we're also working on counting to 20. she's pretty good about it, but still needs a little leading for numbers 13-16. she often says "11, 12, dig and delve" from the poem.

ella is saying things such as "yes i would mommy," and yesterday gathering rocks at the ocean she said "that's so cool!" she also remarked about a purple rock that we found: "this is my favorite rock in the whole wide world. i love it very much."