It's interesting that literacy is not happening in Sasha in the way I kind of assumed it would. Try as we might, she doesn't seem interested in the concept of letters-make-sounds. She's skipped right over that and straight into spelling.
Example: We're at the airport, and we come upon a door with a big stop sign on it. Sasha looks up at it cheerily: "S-T-O-P means stop!" she says. She also knows that the letters s, h, and a are instrumental in her name, but gets confused about the order and when to stop: sahssahasasa, she types.
She's also learned how to draw a mean S, though mostly other letters escape her. I'm not really sure how to guide her from here into full-fledged reading, that blessed milestone I so look forward to. Any suggestions? Do we need to press the point on the sounding-out bit, or can we just teach her to spell a bunch of things with the idea that she'll probably start to get it on her own?