Norah is right on the brink of learning to read. She writes certain words that she knows (Norah, Lori, Ben, Aliya, Adlani, to, from, boob), and she is doing pretty well sounding out words. Yesterday she was riding in the back seat and she said, “What does Y-O spell?” If I had half a brain I would have realized that in her world (Spanish immersion preschool), Y-O spells yo, which means “I”…as in “Yo quiero chocolate.” Instead, I told her that Y-O spells yo, as in “yo-mama.” She thought about it for a minute and then asked, “How do you spell, ‘Yo! Yo! My name is Joe! My butt is bigger than Mex-i-co!”  The next 15 years should be fun.

In this photo, Norah is wearing a pair of (clean) underwear on her head, under the Spiderman hat.  To round out the look, she drew an arrow on her cheek with marker.