Wednesday October 1st, 2014

The exercise:

Write something that has to do with: close... but not quite.

Max has come down with his first cold in a very long time. I guess the combination of travel, a return to StrongStart, and (most damningly) a sick StrongStart teacher was enough to do the trick.

He's fine during the day, it's just the nights. Oh, those nights.

Anyway. I should go get as much sleep as I can.

Mine:

I mentioned before that Kat's been hosting another little boy at our place a couple times a week. Apparently one of his favorite things to do is sing his ABC's, and it so happens that one of Max's toys has that song on it.

So they've been listening and singing along to that quite a bit.

I wasn't aware of this until Max started up on the way to Vancouver last week. Except he's not quite two yet, so it's not terribly surprising that he can't get all the way through without making any mistakes or forgetting letters or what not.

What did catch me by surprise, however, was a substitution he makes.

"A-B-C-D-E-F-G..."

Yup, so far so good!

"H-Grandma-P..."

Sorry, what now?

"Q-R-S..."

No, no, hold on. Back things up a bit, please. Grandma is part of your alphabet? Close, Max. So close.

But not quite.