Spelling

There are moments when our oldest son is trying to tell us something, but we are having trouble understanding him. Now that he is a reader, he has taken to spelling out the word he is trying to say. Usually we know what he's talking about once he spells it, even if his spelling is off a little bit.

Our 3-year-old has seen this, and now when we can't understand him, he'll spell out the word. He was trying to tell me something about the computer yesterday, but I couldn't understand him. He was clearly frustrated when he started spelling out the word. "Mommy! It's E-R-F-E!" It's so funny to hear: he just chooses a jumble of random letters and spells out his word.