Our Little Reader!

I've been noticing for awhile now that Bennett has been recognizing words.

I didn't really think much of it until I started reading "The Happy Lion" to him the other day...

I am reading along and he starts interjected words....the right words, as I am reading to him.  So, I stop reading and instead point to the words to see how many he can recognize.

He shocked me with how many words he knew.

Here is the paragraph and I will BOLD the words he read:

"His home was not the hot and dangerous plains of Africa,
where hunters lie in wait with their guns.
It was a lovely French town with brown-tile roofs and gray shutters.
The happy lion had a house in the town zoo, all for himself,
with a large rock garden surrounded by a moat,
in the middle of the park with flower beds and a bandstand."

I clapped when he finished!  Then, I just had to kind of blink and take that in for a second because he's my fourth child and, to be honest, we haven't spent much time teaching him to read. 

When Greg came home, I had Bennett read the same paragraph for him and Greg said, "We should totally take credit for this!"  Which, again, references the fact that we have no idea how he learned this skill!   But, we sure love him!