Early signs of reading

Wild Thing has now latched on to the idea of sounding out words. This morning saw him trying to sound out the word "prize" in a book. Two thing stymied him. First, he doens't quite get vowels yet. Second, he doesn't quite have the idea of how all those sounds get pushed together to make words. So he came up with "puh," "urrr," "eh," "zzzz," and "eh," but didn't really know what that all added up to.

I should add that while we're being encouraging about all this, we're definitely not pushing too hard. This is pretty much all coming from him.