A, B, C.... it's easy as... um, 1, 3... 4?

Erick is learning his alphabet. He really likes to spell things. We have started reading the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom to him (we unfortunately do not have a copy with a cassette narrated by Ray Charles), and he has really picked up his letters. He spells his name, he spells out book author names that he sees on the table, he spelled out Oreo on the bag of cookies we were eating, and the letters that the water authority spray painted on the road. It is really cute to hear him, especially when he is unsure of the letter or doesn't remember it, and so he just changes it to one that he knows, usually E because that's his favorite one- It's "him," you see.

I'm starting to have him practice writing his name and also sounding out the letters so that he can actually start reading.
M O O N, that spells read.