Reading Progress

We were at Panera Bread when Supriya picked up a copy of the menu. "This spells beaver, doesn't it?", she said pointing at the words Beverages. I said, "That's very close! There's just an extra 'a' in beaver." Manisha pointed out that there's no logic behind that spelling, since fever has no 'a' and it rhymes with beaver. Then later at night Supriya was reading Dr. Seuss's "Hop on Pop" with help from her babysitter (while Manisha and I were out to see an excellent one-woman show called Squeezebox written and performed by Ann Randolph at the Merrimack Repertory Theater) and apparently making good progress.