Something so small, but such an important "inch-stone"

Tonight, Mike read a book a to JP. It was a familiar book. One they've read together many times before. A book about Ernie. One of JP's favorite characters from Sesame Street. But this time we tried something different. We switched books. We gave JP Mike's braille only copy of the book to follow while Mike read from the Braille-Print-Picture version of the same book. I want to say the results were amazing... to many, they may be simple... but to us, these these simple images mean so much... JP used his finger to follow along with the braille! He may not yet be actually reading it, but he "gets it". He gets that he uses his fingers to follow the dots to make the words and that is AWESOME!