It's just one letter.

Cameron and I have been working out of a "Reading Lesson" book for several months now. Even though we started it this summer, we're only on lesson 43. However, now that Cameron can read most decodable words, he's always coming up to me, "Mommy, let's due a reading lesson." And when he finishes, "Mommy, let's do another one!"

It's great and exciting, however, in order to control the sounds and sight words the children are to be practicing, the authors of this program create stories that are quite awkward and very boring.

Except for today. I couldn't stop giggling as Cameron was reading the story. You see, in the past, Cameron had some trouble producing certain sounds. It was all developmental, and now he's fine. However, sometimes he still has trouble saying a clear "S" sound, and often a "SH" sound comes out instead.

So when he read it, the latest story sounded like this:

he said, "can I eat cake?"
she said, "go shit with the cow."
he said, "no. I will not go."
she said, "go shit with the cat."
he said, "the cat has cake."
she said, "go shit with the cat and eat cake."
so he ate cake. he said, "this is fun."

I better fix this speech issue before he starts school next year or else he might be spending some time in the principal's office.