"R" as in Lome, "L"as on Rondon

Annie is doing remarkably well at learning letters. Kindergarten may not have all the answers for some of her social and behavioral issues, but academically, she's already doing better than I expected. Annie can actually spell her own name (verbally only - I think that writing letters is still a long way off)! Sometimes she recites her name with only one "n," but that still sends a thrill through me.

So lately, Annie likes telling us the sounds letters make, for instance, "m goes mah, mah, mah." And Annie will often pick out a word or object and tell us what sound it begins with, like "book starts with bah, bah, bah." But Annie is quite wry, as evidenced by these two things she told us: "Underwear! Underwear starts with pah, pah, pah!" and "A. A is for mom!"