Running with it

When Fuller seems to grasp a concept we tend to offer it up to him as a good thing and then repeatedly ask him about it. He likes to point out letters, so we encourage spelling. And right now Fuller is really interested in left and right. So tonight I was driving home from Esther's giving a running commentary on the direction of our car.

Yesterday we were playing Zingo and asking him to spell the words on the tiles. Since the words were written in all lowercase he would get tripped up. I would tell him the sound of the letter and he would get it almost immediately. Our lesson plans for the week include a review of lowercase letters and phonics.

Fuller has also decided we should start exploring emotions more since he likes to announce, "I sad. I crying." And yesterday one of the Zingo tiles showed a ghost. To our recollection Fuller has never seen an illustrated (or real) ghost but Fuller announced the picture was "scared."

Watching Fuller learn has been one of the best things about being a parent. It makes me happy, another emotion Fuller likes to announce.