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Baby got BPAL!
Apr. 5th, 2006 12:33 am(Vicki here.)
Rhys has been very interested in my bottles of essential oils for a while now. (I use them in incense and magical oil making, so I have them out a lot.) He likes to sniff anything tht I let him. Lately, I've gotten a little obsessed with perfumes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, which come in tiny glass vials with their very odd names attached on white sticker tags. I let Rhys look at my collection this afternoon when he was in a sniffing mood.
Now, Rhys is sight reading a lot of words these days. He's not doing a lot of phonetics-based reading, though he knows what sounds the letters make. What this means is that when he sees a word that looks sort of like a word he knows, he figures it's probably the same word, or worth guessing that, anyway.
I was impressed when he read the label for "White Rabbit" correctly, without any picture cues. I was extremely amused when he read the label for the voodoo oil "Follow Me Boy" as "Flower Me Boy". And I couldn't stop laughing when he very proudly and self-assuredly picked up a bottle of "Vice" and squealed "Vicki! This one say Mommy's name!"
Some of them he couldn't read, so he asked me. And then repeated what I said. A bunch. "This one Torment. A very good smell." "Bastet. It smelling like a very cherry smell!" It's funny to hear a two year old saying "Torment" gleepfully over and over. It just is.
Rhys has been very interested in my bottles of essential oils for a while now. (I use them in incense and magical oil making, so I have them out a lot.) He likes to sniff anything tht I let him. Lately, I've gotten a little obsessed with perfumes from Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, which come in tiny glass vials with their very odd names attached on white sticker tags. I let Rhys look at my collection this afternoon when he was in a sniffing mood.
Now, Rhys is sight reading a lot of words these days. He's not doing a lot of phonetics-based reading, though he knows what sounds the letters make. What this means is that when he sees a word that looks sort of like a word he knows, he figures it's probably the same word, or worth guessing that, anyway.
I was impressed when he read the label for "White Rabbit" correctly, without any picture cues. I was extremely amused when he read the label for the voodoo oil "Follow Me Boy" as "Flower Me Boy". And I couldn't stop laughing when he very proudly and self-assuredly picked up a bottle of "Vice" and squealed "Vicki! This one say Mommy's name!"
Some of them he couldn't read, so he asked me. And then repeated what I said. A bunch. "This one Torment. A very good smell." "Bastet. It smelling like a very cherry smell!" It's funny to hear a two year old saying "Torment" gleepfully over and over. It just is.
