Hayden and I like to practice things while he gets his "five minutes in your bed" with mom before he goes to bed. Bath time and play time and pajamas give way to five minutes in mom's bed watching tv, then two stories, a hefty round of hugs and kisses and tucking in and finally, sleep. But during those five minutes we practice our letters and colors and numbers and whatever else he may have learned lately. For example, he told me the fork in my hand the other day was a dinglehopper. Thank you, Little Mermaid. "Alexander" is still a mouthful for him, but he can say dinglehopper? He has finally gotten to the point where he'll tell me his whole name is Hayden Alexander Rogers and he's three years old (it used to be Hayden Alexander Rogers for the name but when asked how old he was, he would reply "Name Hayden"). We also work on his address and he has it down pretty well. So the other night I decided to practice one he already had a good handle on.
Mom: Hayden, let's do our ABC's.
Hayden: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, A, Y, D, E, N.
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Seriously. And they call Americans egocentric? Weird.
Tonight we tried again and got "A, B, C, D, E, N." I suppose we'll keep trying!
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