One of Elias’ favorite games these days is something he calls “letters.” Basically, we get out the bananagrams game, dump out all of the tiles, and he spells word after word. Sometimes he asks me for a specific word. Sometimes he copies words he finds in books. Sometimes he makes up his own words that look something like this: dienvoskensivkd.
The other day, though, he did something quite remarkable. Elias told me that he wanted to spell gorilla. I decided to tell him to sound it out rather than doing it for him. This is what he came up with:
That is pretty darn good if I do say so myself. Grrr-eh-luh was how he sounded it out. My little boy is growing up!