As for the alphabet, it’s a mixture. She can say the names of B, I & T. The others she knows either the sound they make (S) or words that begin with them. For H, she says “hippo,” R=rhino, W=walrus, M=Mommy, etc. The funniest thing is that she’ll point to “G” for grandma, only she pronounces it “Meemah.” (My mom is Meemah and Chris’ mom is Grandma, even though she says Meemah for both. If one of us refers to Grandma as Meemah, she shakes her head no and looks at us like we’re nuts.) So I don’t know if she’s really getting the sound that G makes or if she’s associating the letter with the word…

Out of curiousity, when you say Natalie knows her letters, is that reading them or making the sound of the letter. No surprise that she’s brilliant!