The First Fifty and BAD DOG!!!!

Hip Hip Hooray! Shaan mastered reading/spelling his first 50 words this week! I'll admit I've not been so great a focusing on reading with him lately, so I hit the ground running at the start of this year (2013) thinking I need to get back into the swing of using our flashcards, reading more books, etc. After we used our flashcards a few nights ago, I counted how many he was able to read and it was 50 words exactly:

1) Yes
2) Toy
3) Boy
4) Bug
5) Bible
6) He
7) Zoo
8) Shaan
9) Slow
10) Dog
11) Stop
12) Boo
13) Cat
14) Too
15) You
16) Teeth
17) Ball
18) JuJu (what he calls my mom)
19) Jesus
20) Open
21) No
22) Daddy
23) Eyes
24) Red
25) Blue
26) Mommy
27) Car
28) Purple
29) Black
30) Me
31) Baby
32) Ho
33) Man
34) Happy
35) Good
36) Bus
37) Circle
38) Brown
39) Yellow
40) Boys
41) Ha
42) Pink
43) Orange
44) Hi
45) Nose
46) Moo
47) Green
48) Toys
49) Go
50) Cats

He turned 3 and a 1/2 on Christmas Day, and I've noticed that all of a sudden I can show him words 2-3 times and he picks them up. So, I really want to make 2013 a big year for focusing on reading. I saw on the Teaching Baby to Read blog that there was a challenge to read our children 2013 books in 2013. That seems like a lot, but if you average it per day it only equates to about 6 books a day. I think I'm going to see if we are up for the challenge this year! Am I crazy?

In other family news, I was attacked by a Rottweiler on Tuesday. Thankfully, I am ok and I am so glad Shaan was not with me, but I'm pretty sure I'll have a permanent reminder (i.e. scar) of this one - what do you think? (Note: the first picture is from the day this happened {Tuesday} and the second pic is from today {Saturday})

Luckily, my husband is a very good doctor, so I have been in great hands and cared for tremendously since Tuesday. Thanks, Manu! :)