Can you spell SMART?

I will start by saying that if this story sounds like bragging, it is. Its mostly grandparents and aunts and god-parents who read this blog anyway, so they won’t mind me boasting about my wonderful child’s accomplishments! If I don’t keep track of them here, I am afraid I will forget when these milestones happen.

Yesterday, while I was working on the computer, Henry was playing with his magnetic letters. He was placing them on the dishwasher and saying some of them. The set has all 26 letters, 1-9 numbers and math symbols like the equal sign. He walked over to the refrigerator and said “Mommie, have all letters my name”, then he arranged what you see in the picture. Ok, it isn’t perfect, but my mouth was hanging open. This spelling effort was without any prompting, help, or even attention (sadly) from me! To be fair, it wasn’t completely out of the blue, because if you ask him how to spell his name, he will promptly say H-E-N-R-Y, but I get the feeling that he has just memorized it. I was very shocked that when given all the letters to chose from, in no order, that he could almost spell it out correctly! I am very proud-- can you tell??