smarty pants

aubrey is surprising us daily with her amazing baby skills! we already knew that aubrey has taken an interest in learning the alphabet, and that she even has a few letters that seem to be perennial favorites (she gravitates toward the letters T and M, in particular) but what we didn't realize is that she actually can identify most of the letters in the alphabet.

rewind to friday night, when we were hanging out in the living room, playing with a gigantic "puzzle" that has all of the letters on it, and numbers up to 10. just for fun, i said "aubrey, where is the letter B?" aubrey pondered for a moment, then crawled up to the puzzle piece with the letter B on it, and swatted it with her hand. pete and i exchanged surprised looks. "where is the letter L?" aubrey pointed to the L. we continued this little game for a while, and were amazed that four times out of five, she picked the correct letter! (she got a little confused about some letters...for example, when asked to find the letter J, she chose G...i think that's because J and G make similar sounds.)

pretty impressive for a 18 month old! i guess the "fridge phonics"are starting to sink in.

also- aubrey impressed us with her color identification skills this weekend. we were playing with a toy with different colored pieces. we asked her which piece was blue, red, green yellow and so on, and she correctly identified each color! so although she only says yellow and purple ("purpoh") she has a basic grasp of the concept of colors. we haven't graduated to magenta or puce yet. soon though. : )

aside: we got approximately two feet (TWO! FEET!) of snow this weekend. the really light, floaty, fluffy kind. pretty wild.