This morning my 3 year old daughter, while brushing her teeth goes, " Noon se *nal, Mama." It felt good to hear that. I was certainly proud of her, and how she recalled the Urdu alphabet letter and the corresponding picture from her online lessons.

Rest of the day was filled with a few similar anecdotes-we went outside, and I asked Zara to watch out for the puddle to which she retored, "Mama, this is a **hose." I laughed and corrected her - saying, "it looks like a hose but its not. Hose is a little body of water with duckies in it." I kind of tried to make a similar picture in her mind of the word as the Urdu at Home website depicted it in their lessons.

Truly a joy to see how these little minds retain so much information, and how they love to make associations with their current knowledge of Urdu vocabulary.

*nal=tap

**hose=pond