Back in the Homeland

With regards to reading, we have been making steady progress.  Sounding out three letter and some four letter words is no problem as long as they follow "the rules" (ie no th, ch, ph, and all the vowels have their short sound).  Occasionally he get's tripped up by lower case 'b', 'd', and 'p'.  Also, he will occasionally guess the word when he sounds out the first two letters rather than reading it to the end.  I still feel that at times I am pushing him too much with the cards.  Interestingly, after rereading Larry Sanger's essay, I have been much more about making my sound out the words himself rather than reading them to him, and this may be why he continues to sound out the words rather than instantly recognize words that he's seen before (such as cat).

In meta-news, we are in Yakima for three weeks.  Sort of a trial run to see if my wife will end up liking to do her commitment here for the NHSC. Hospitalist work here will be a different beast, but I can do anything for a while, and perhaps there are more opportunities to help (such as with the residency or the new DO school), that might make it fulfilling.