We have alphabet magnets on our fridge. Upper and lower case as it happens. The former a gift from my sister, the latter a gift from the nanny – part of a toy from Leap Frog that involves a big magnetic airplane that says things when the letters are plugged into it. For example, “s” yields “I ssssssing with sssssnakes!”
We have often spelled “JONAH” in the past. Tonight, he asked me to spell “TRAIN.”
So, I ask him for each letter, which he finds in the clusters on the fridge and we place them in the proper order. We talk about what each letter’s sound is, et cetera.
As it happens, another group of letters clustered in a corner accidentally spells “FART.” So I point that out. And Jonah thinks that is HILARIOUS. In a fit of excitement, he runs at the fridge, pushes all the letters around until they fall on the floor, runs around in a circle, and comes back.
And then we spell it again.
Funny.
I have found the 2-1/2-year-old-boy funny bone.
So then we spell “POOp.” I mean, how could we not?
And “pee.”
Hi – lair – eeeee – yusssssss.
Oh, yes. We also spelled “Thomas,” and “Murdoch.”
Too funny. You have entered the “poopoo caca” phase. This will be funny for many years to come. We ended up spelling these same words one day at a restaurant, when the boy was curious about their spelling. We couldn’t ruin a perfectly good teachable moment, and hey, they’re easy to spell.
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