Word Wh@mmer

We love toys that teach. Which is one reason we love the Leapster and the Fridge Phonics. Well the "Word Whammer" is the next step up from the Fridge Phonics, even uses the same letters. It teaches letter sounds and 3 letter words. I picked it up for Julia the other day, as you can see it was a hit! She loves it and the reason the pictures are blurred, she was dancing to the music when she got something right! LOL.

I sat down with her the other night with one of her Magna Doodle toys and I would write a letter, and then she would try to write the same letter. We went through the whole alphabet and boy was I impressed! Aside from doing a few mirror images, she's really got her letters down pretty good! This was copying, not tracing, and I'm not saying she has perfect handwriting or anything, but for 3 years old I think she did pretty darn good. I've taught kids ages 2-5 and I'm not kidding you, she did better than many 4 and 5 year olds I had in my last class. And she was so funny, when we were done, she said "Thank you for doing my letters with me Mama" Oh if only she was always that sweet and polite!!! She is often, but oh when she's not, look out.

We are still on for Devyn Day on Friday! Julia and I are going through the toy boxes this week and organizing a bit before Devyn gets here. Putting a few more things in Devyn's room and I found some prints online that I am going to order and frame for her walls. They seem so empty right now. And we have changed our plans for next week, we are going to DISNEY after all! It just works out that now is the better time for Daddy's schedule so we are going to go and just celebrate Devyn being with us. We've booked a Princess lunch already, Julia is going to flip. I don't plan on telling her until we get there. She knows we are going to meet Miss Kim and Jaiden but we didn't tell her we would also be meeting Mickey and friends!

We'll spend a few days down there, come home, rest up and hit the road for Maine. Can't wait to see my family again and at the rate the weather is going, there's little doubt that Julia will finally see snow. Not sure how I feel about that part yet. Leaving Maine, we intend to detour to Ohio. So we'll just be hitting everyone this trip, even hoping for a quick stop in Pittsburgh. Yes, I know, we are crazy, we've been through that before. We kind of looked at it as easier to do one long trip than to do another trip in a couple of months. Then we can home and enjoy our summer at the beach and from that point on, y'all can just come see us here. ;)