Understanding

Well, Teah talks like she's all grown up sometimes, but of course she reminds you that she's only 3 quite often. There are some concepts she just can't grasp, like death. Today in the pet store Teah asked if we could buy some bones for when Scrappy comes back. I've explained to her numerous times that he's not coming back, but permanence is just not a concept she understands yet. It broke my heart just a little...

Reading

Teah can read! Kind of... There are quite a few words that she has learned how to spell. Well, today we had mail sitting on our table from Brookfield Zoo and the outside of the envelope says has the zoo logo. Teah looked at it and said, "Look Mommy, we got something from the zoo. See - Z - O- O". It was the first time that she actually told me what a word was when she had never seen that specific instance before. What a big girl!