Boy wonder

Noah, we can't tell you enough how proud we are of you. Whilst we do spend a lot of time taking the mickey out of you, we want you to know that really, you make us extraordinarily proud every single day. Anyway, our pride reached new heights a couple of days ago when you started showing rudimentary signs that you are recognising letters. Already. There is an app on our iPads that you like to play called Endless Alphabet. It looks like this:

You have liked playing this for a long time. What happens is this: a word comes up on the screen with all the letters jumbled up round it:

Then you slowly but surely

Add letters to their correct places

Until the word is complete

Obviously, being 15 and a half months old, you lacked the cognitive and fine motor skills to move the letters to the right place yourself. You have, up until now, just moved the letters round the screen enjoying the colours and repeating the sounds. Your mummy and daddy then move your hand for you to the right places to complete each word.

Until yesterday, you started doing this:

And, with a bit of help at the start, this:

And even when you clearly just enjoy the sounds of the letters, you get there in the end:

You, my son, are a boy wonder indeed.