Sounding it out?

I was reading to Hunter last night and the book was a search-and-find-type book. He had to look at a picture of a classroom and find something in the picture for every letter of the alphabet. He came up with apple for A, bat and ball for B and when he got to C he told me, "Oh, I know...circle!" I thought this was pretty good considering "circle" has an S sound. Later on I was telling my brother about this in front of Hunter and he started quizzing him with a few more. "How 'bout "snake?" Hunter: "S!" "How 'bout "circus?" Hunter: "C!" This went on a few more times and he never missed. Not sure how he does it but he never ceases to amaze us. Ceases...I'll have to ask him about that one next time. :)