Baby Einstein

Not to brag, but Griffin reads at a fourteen month old level. He is a gentleman and a scholar. He knows how to turn pages and shout at the picture of the kitten and sometimes he even likes to taste his books. Griffin is a multi-sensory kind of guy. He likes to look closely at the animals and compare them, but he only talks to the cats- the tiger, lion and kitten. He doesn't have much experience talking to zebras and I hear they're easily offended.

As a primary educator, it pleases me to no end that my little ball of fire will sit and look at his books for upwards of seven minutes, even when he isn't confined to a chair. Seven minutes is an eternity for a ten month old! He'll be reading Tolkien in Kindergarten! Every teacher mom secretly fears that their kid will be the one in the back stuffing erasers up his nose, so I'm thrilled that Griffin digs his books. Sure he likes to lick them, but I think that qualifies as early phonemic awareness.