People talk about how "A picture is worth a thousand words", but that is only one picture, sometimes a thousand words can paint a heck of a lot of pictures.

Precisely! The flow of words creates movies out of all the pictures - interactive movies at that.

I am not there, in 20 years when she finds this post I am sure she will be able to see the pictures more clearly from this day, and re-feel the joy at her first sign reading.

I hope she can see all that we tried for her and all that we did wrong - but did in earnest.

I keep thinking about learning Russian, just so I could read some untranslated books and stories, and to find the more obscure books that have not been translated, or new books that might never see translation.

That would be an interesting project - what is stopping you?