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These two names - can you pick them out from a sea of random letters? - these two names are the first words (other than Brianna) that Bri spelled on her own.

She asked before breakfast to organize the letters into color groups again. Then she asked to spell Lola. We got as far as the L by sounding it out and had to go find a Charlie and Lola book.

Then we sounded it out more and checked the letter choices, one by one, against the book cover. There was Lola.

Then, she wanted to spell Charlie - with less of the book's help. Our challenge was to find another L after she used two of them for Lola. Hooray to Carol for repurposing the 7.

Cat... bah. Dog... naw. How about Mom or Mommy? Nope. Ditto for Dad. My daughter spells Charlie and Lola.

Dick and Jane are eating their hearts out this very night.