Samantha is starting to learn the alphabet, and going to be reading before we know it. Not only can she sing the entire alphabet song, she has memorized most of her favorite books and can "read" along with you, reciting the right words on each page. She clearly also knows that the printing on the page is words, and that the words go with the story, because if I point to specific parts of the page she'll recite approximately the right part of the text. She's not reading, of course, bue she's associating certain passages with particular parts of the writing on the page, which is a start.

And if that wasn't enough, Amy sent me email today with the following observation:

Sam wrote and A on her hand and said, Mommy, I wrote an A, an A mommmy,
right here!

Wow...