Our Early Reader

We were in the bookstore tonight (as we so often are) and we witnessed something truly remarkable. Alicia found a deck of cards with sight words on them—little words like "red", "and", "many", "like"—and showed them to 3-year-old Jacob. To our astonishment, he rattled through all but three of them. We had no idea that he knew so many words by sight.

Not bragging here, just thinking about the implications. Where do we go from here? Is this something we should encourage and work with, or just let it be? I'm inclined to say that we should just keep doing what we've been doing; reading to them, pointing out words as we do so, and let Jacob pick up as much as he wants. I'm afraid that if we push him, he'll get turned off of reading. Better that he should just see us loving books and learn to love books in that way.