The kids love to draw and write. The white board is their favorite (and I recently found washable dry erase markers-kids with nerdy office-supply-loving moms have the best stuff). However, we've been taking advantage of the warmer weather to draw on the sidewalks before they are covered in snow. Yuck, snow. It is amazing that two kids and their endless need for movement can turn a winter person into somebody who prays for enough sun each day to usher the kids out of the house!
But I digress. One day we were drawing Halloween pictures on the sidewalk (no doubt because his buddies William and Scout did it the day before across the street) and I wrote "BOO" next to a ghost. Then I went off to help Alexa draw her circles and when I went inside I noticed this "BOO" by the door. I hadn't even mentioned to Billy that I drew it, but he took it upon himself to copy it and to figure out what it said. He wrote his first word! So we've discovered the best way to learn letters is to copy themed words. Spelling and letter recognition at once. Heck yes! Rocky was a little nervous when he came home that night to find RIP DAD by the front steps, but hey-a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do to entertain her kids. And if creating our family plots is what they want, family plots are what they get!
Alexa loves circles. She'll trace them in the air saying "Round and Round", on paper anytime she can sneak a marker from somewhere (and let me tell you-I LOVE that she takes it upon herself to also sneak scratch paper from her desk...what one-year-old does that?), on the sidewalk and in her barbecue sauce. She also drew a "A" unprompted on the sidewalk. Guess it pays to hang out with the preschoolers.
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