Rainy Spring

We're inside today, playing with trains. I never expected my baby girl to love trains as much as my baby boy. But, I think she does. She loves to send them zooming down bridges.


Nash knows his letters, and learned them in uppercase. He has a puzzle game with pictures and the space next to it to spell out what the picture is - in lowercase letters. He knows some of them and is still learning. Uppercase and lowercase letters seem very silly to a kid. Why the heck do need two of each? Anyway, Nash and I have started singing a song with flashcards and I'll point to the upper and lower case letters as I sing, "Big A little a, what begins with A? Alligator, apple, a, a, a. Big B little b, what begins with B? Banana, bat, boy, b, b, b." And we go through the whole alphabet that way. I took advantage of this rainy morning inside and tacked up some flash cards in his wall for him to study. (It may seem funny that I used the word "study" since he's 3, but that's really what he does. He looks at things and examines them and learns them. He's always done it.)


And finally, I was so proud of Nashy last night! I have him this little book with simple connect the dots and it didn't take him 30 seconds to grasp what to do. And he loved it!!