Ok, I remembered the other one. Can you
tell it’s a snow day and I have nowhere to go?

Letters
Along the lines of the alphabet, Lex has started pointing
out letters wherever we go. We pulled into the grocery store
parking lot yesterday, which is in a strip with a Borders
bookstore, and when I opened his door to get him out I hear him
saying “there’s an ‘o’, there’s a ‘r’, there’s a ‘d’, etc. I
presume he pointed out the “b” before I opened the door. He
also likes to sit at the table with me in the morning and
“read” the newspaper. He tends to prefer the advertising fliers
:) He’ll point out different letters (“s” in “sale” is common),
count the people, and point out different articles of clothing.
Today he got very excited about a baby in a blue hat. “There’s
a baby. Baby has blue hat. There’s hat.” Very excited. We were
in a waiting room the other day (for far too long, but that’s a
whole other story) and he kept bringing me magazines (Time,
Newsweek, Car & Driver, etc.) and he’d crawl up on my lap
and flip the pages. I’d say “can you find a ‘K’?” and he’d look
and look until he found it. Sometimes he’ll even find big
letters and little letters (caps and lowercase).

Anyway, Alan reminded me that all kids like to
point out objects that they know the names of (Lex used to love
flags and clocks), but I think it’s extra cool that the objects
he’s fixated on now are letters :)

Ok,
time to do something useful while he naps. Hmmm… does
knitting count as useful???