Nathan Loves Letters

Nathan's favorite thing to play with these days is a big bucket of foam bath letters.  (Which, incidentally, he outside of the bath.  Mostly because he doesn't bathe that often.  Conveniently, I currently have an excuse for that, since we are down from three bathrooms to one, and well... apparently going upstairs would be too hard?  Just go with it, ok?  The lack of kiddie bathtime is because of the flooding.  Really.*)

Anyway.  The letters.  Nathan loves these things. 

He likes to hold them up one at a time and ask what each one is, and what words they're for.  And he actually remembers a healthy handful of them!  N is for Nathan, A is for Anneliese, S is for sister, F is for Frank (one of his school friends), 3 is for Nathan is three, etc.

He thinks it's great fun when we spell out words and talk to him about what they say.  And he recognizes a few -- like his name.  (Yes, yes, we have moved beyond the days of only being able to spell Clemson.)  A few weeks ago, he and Another Nathan spent one evening playing some version of word scramble that kept him both of them amused for close to an hour.  And then he latched on to the game for the forseeable future, apparently.

I maked a really big word! Does it say Another Nathan?!

Maybe when the house remodels/repairs are done and we have our other bathrooms back, we will take lots more baths** and Nathan will practice his spelling in the tub instead.  And maybe we'll find the bucket these letters originally came in so that  our children can end their love affair with the cardboard box*** already.  Maybe.

*Not really.
**Probably not.
***Definitely not.