BOB and HOP

You are probably thinking "strange title for a blog post", but there is meaning behind those two words. Dillon can spell and/or read both!
Dillon has been very interested in what letter words start with and how some words are spelled. So rather than just spell them out for him I figured I'd try to get him to sound them out to figure it out on his own. So far it has worked well. He wanted to know how to spell Bob and was so happy when he figured it out and has remembered it. Of course he'd figure out how to spell Bob before mom or dad!!
Today we were spelling words with magnets. I laid out H-O-P and he said "hop"! I was actually a little surprised that he knew the word out of context. We read the book Hop on Pop a lot and he knows the title of the book when he sees it, I'm assuming from the picture, but I didn't realize that he actually did know the word!

He's one smart cookie!!!