The other day the girls were cleaning up from doing some painting and I was listening to them from the other room. ShiAnne was trying to hurry and said, "I need to go my hiney in gear." The Lizzy in her sweetest little girl voice while giggling say, "I love it when you say hiney."
The girls like all kids there age like to make cards and note but often don't know how to spell what they want to say. So of course, they will ask me how to spell it and then I will tell them letter by letter how to spell it. When they are finished writing down one letter they will ask, "what's next?" and I will tell them the next letter. Gideon also likes to play this game. Being two he doesn't know how to write any of his letter but he will get a piece of paper and a pencil and ask me, "what's next?" I will tell him a letter and he will draw a circle or a scribble and then ask me, "mom what's next?" I have decided this may be great way to teach him to spell his name. So when we play this game I always spell out his name for him. I don't know if it is working but at least he feels like he is every bit as big as the girls.