Here is an email that I just sent to some friends:
You wanna know what just happened?? You wanna??? WALLACE READ, LIKE, 10 WORDS OUT OF A BOOK!!! I mean, known context and all, but honest to Christmas he sounded out 10 words and pointed to them on the page! One of them was “rainbow”! “It has a r-r-r- r in it. And a n-n-n en. And a b-b-b b. And ohwwwww. w. double-u. … there it is, Mommy. ‘rainbow’”.
And that nuclear blast you heard 15 minutes ago was my head exploding with pride.
Peeps, he was SOUNDING OUT WORDS. I was just reading to him as usual and BLAM! He reads.
I told a friend that it feels like it did when he took his first steps. He just knocked me sideways with awesome. It was like getting hit in the face with the world’s biggest slice of french silk pie.
Wow. And he’s younger than four and a half.
Wallace, you rock.
