What's a "WOW?"

Emma's new favorite thing to do is sound out words and try to guess what letter the word starts with. She does this for just about everything she sees: "ba ba bathtub- it's 'B!'" or "s s skittles- it's 'S!'" (her favorite thing in the world is skittles!!) She gets so excited when she can figure it out. So we were working on "W"- wind, window- things like that when my mother-in-law said, "wa wa WOW!" Emma looked at her and was very puzzled. After a minute she said, "What's a WOW?" 

We had a good laugh, but it made me think just how much I love seeing how simple things are to these precious little kids! Why do I try and make things so much more complicated then they need to be? Emma is not afraid to learn and if she doesn't know the answer she's not afraid to ask. Just one more of the million things that she has helped me to remember and learn! "WOW!"