I am SO proud of Austin!

I was making some flash cards for the kids. Mainly for Ashley b/c she has a hard time with rhyming. I want to show her how the rhyming words have the same ending. As I was making them Austin came in the room and started reading all the cards. He read over 200 of them on Thursday night. So I decided to start making the words more difficult. He would get frustrated on some of them and say, don't tell me and he would work them out.

He would sound them out like this: "t...rrr... when 2 vowels go a walkin' the first one does the talkin'...ay...tray"

He even sounded out the words, cheat and wheat and lunch and wish.

I was so excited, I told Austin that I was so proud of him. And he said, "I'm so proud of myself!" How precious is that?

 I bought him a train tonight, because I thought this was a big deal and deserved a reward!