I'm so excited for you! That's great news! You are right - I bet your W didn't understand what you were asking, even after you asked in a diff way. If you could get her to read the book with you, she would understand better. When you talk about reading it together - do you actually read it together and discuss it (you read out loud, then she reads out loud) or do you just share it and read it by yourselves? When my H and I started reading SSM, we read it aloud to each other. Not only did it keep us 'on the same page' so to speak, it gave us time alone together.
><> *singing* Reading Rainbow, Reading Rainbow! Oh...I bet that puts an age on me.