Enough with the rant titles – I’m giving myself a headache.
My son is addicted to the alphabet. My friend, Crissy, with loving sarcasm calls him the alphabet prodigy because at 18 months he could identify any upper case letter that you would point to or write. Now he puts them in alphabetical order (the fridge phonic letters), knows upper and lower case, goes around the house saying “I love W so much” (the letter not the President), “I love the alphabet”…it’s absolutely makes me break out in a cold sweat. Mind you, he loves trucks, cars, toys, lots and lots of toys, his best buddy, John (Crissy & Denis’ son), his parents, his cup – but he has continually played with alphabet and number games for almost four days in a row now (previously only 50 percent of the time). I need to find a program for him…
“Hi, I’m Andrew and I’m an alphabet-o-holic“….
I have to say he does love “W”. We have an alphabet train puzzle and we use to start the puzzle with A – but he would say at least 100 times before we got to the middle of the alphabet – “I want W” “I want W” “I want W” W W W W W W W W. I have nightmares of giant Ws chasing me….now we just start at Z and go backwards, if he ends up dyslexic it is his own damn fault.
I’m proud of him that he loves to learn but I think the majority of ability in his INCREDIBLE memory. I could bore you with countless examples but I won’t. He inherits his memory from me – I remember everything much to my husband’s dismay. My husband, a wealth of knowledge, by any standard, is like the nutty professor sometimes – he once lost two sets of car and house keys within a space of two weeks. He is no longer allowed to carry keys to any of our assets. I was the one that had to go to the car dealer with a signed letter from him (at that time his name was on the title of our car as we had just gotten married) to have duplicate keys made at the cost of $10 each. The key maker had to call my husband on the phone to verify that he indeed approved of the duplication of keys to the car. The guy told me he has to verify everything now because someone came in and made copies to an ex-husband’s car and then went and drove it off. He said divorce was nasty sometimes. I told him, “if my husband loses these keys…our divorce will be nasty too.”
Well, mudslide is calling…
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